Engineering schools' workshop to discuss AI: European competitiveness and ethics in focus

"How can Europe be competitive while remaining true to its values? How can we fully exploit AI while respecting directives on personal data and a human-based ethic?" Those are the questions asked by Claire Peyratout, President of the CTI (French Commission of Engineering Titles), at the international workshop titled 'Artificial intelligence: what impact for quality assurance in the European higher education area?' held in Lyon (France) on 03/02/2025.

She describes the context of the workshop as intense: "Trump's $500 Bn investment in AI, China's DeepSeek, which aims to compete with the US, and Europe hosting a major AI summit on 10 and 11/02/2025, bringing together all the key players."

European states are trying to stay in the race when it comes to AI innovations: "Europe's position, guided by the work on AI carried out at the time by Cédric Villani (mathematician, former French Deputy and specialist of AI at the Parliament), is to enter through the human element, through ethics, something that will make the world's population adhere to it by standard, it's what people want to…