A European Ai Strategy : Brainstorming

Purpose of this document: The European Investment Bank asked me to reflect on my year in Silicon Valley and to come up with some takeaways for Europe. All of the takeaways from this document serve only as a first draft and brainstorming tool as to what could be included in a European strategy for AI. I do not believe that I am right or wrong; I am highlighting what I saw, heard, or read during my one-year research. Origin of the AI interest of the author: To "make a drone fly only by thought" seems like a science-fiction story. However, this technology already exists, and it is considered an "easy AI." I saw that when I first arrived in Silicon Valley in January 2018. Exploring the AI field from a business background, I've noticed that its impacts can be both promising and daunting. Who am I? A French academic researcher in Business and Innovation strategy working with UC Berkeley (USA) and University of Montpellier (France). I did a Ph.D. in France on "Strategizing and managing coopetition: collaboration between competitors" and a postdoc at UC Berkeley on "Open-innovation: unlock the open-innovation opportunities by collaborating with competitors." My latest work aims to explore how previous experiences of industry participants govern the development of complex technologies. Indeed AI is a novel technology, but there are past models from which we can learn to govern the technology in the future. I firmly believe that we can learn from academic research to make NEW mistakes, rather than repeating PAST mistakes already experienced by other managers