# Bernard Cazeneuve and artificial intelligence *Potential candidate · La Convention* Founder of the La Convention movement, former Prime Minister What Bernard Cazeneuve proposes and says about AI for France's 2027 presidential election: exact quotes, translated and sourced. Neutral observatory, no scores or rankings. ## Artificial intelligence ### Organize collective reflection within the company on the deployment of AI tools Commitment · AI, Industry and the Transformation of Work · July 15, 2026 > collective reflection, within the company, on the deployment of the tools Original French quote: réflexion collective, dans l’entreprise, sur le déploiement des outils Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) ### Guaranteeing the right to train throughout life in the face of AI Commitment · Employment and Workforce Training · July 15, 2026 > The fear of being replaced or downgraded, fueled by the progress of artificial intelligence, is not an individual worry. It is a collective anxiety. It calls not for a reassuring speech, but for a concrete guarantee: being able to train throughout one's life. Original French quote: La crainte d’être remplacé ou déclassé, nourrie par les progrès de l’intelligence artificielle, n’est pas une inquiétude individuelle. C’est une angoisse collective. Elle n’appelle pas un discours rassurant, mais une garantie concrète : pouvoir se former tout au long de sa vie. Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) ### Turning INESIA into an authority assessing AI systems before and after deployment Commitment · AI Regulation and the AI Act · July 15, 2026 > It must be made into a genuine authority, capable of examining these systems before their deployment and then monitoring them, step by step Original French quote: Il faut en faire une véritable autorité, capable d’examiner ces systèmes avant leur déploiement et de les suivre ensuite, pas à pas Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) ### Redirecting European savings toward investment in computing power Commitment · Research, Investment and Business · July 15, 2026 > Savings exist, abundant and first and foremost European. But they cross the Atlantic, and it is our savings that finance the power of others. Bringing them back is a political decision. Original French quote: L’épargne existe, abondante et d’abord européenne. Mais elle traverse l’Atlantique, et ce sont nos économies qui financent la puissance des autres. La ramener est une décision politique. Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) ## Data centers and energy ### Storing French citizens' data in Europe, under European law Commitment · Sovereign Hosting and Moratorium · July 15, 2026 > That of French citizens cannot live on servers subject to the law of another power, free one day to consult it or to seize it. Keeping it in Europe, under our law, meets the same requirement Original French quote: Celles des Français ne peuvent vivre sur des serveurs soumis au droit d’une autre puissance, libre un jour de les consulter ou de s’en saisir. Les garder en Europe, sous notre loi, répond à la même exigence Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) ## Education and AI ### Guaranteeing equal access everywhere to quality digital training Goal · Screens and Digital Technology in Schools · July 15, 2026 > equal access, everywhere, to quality digital training. Original French quote: égalité d’accès, partout, aux formations numériques de qualité. Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) ### Teaching Data Ethics as Part of the Knowledge of the Century Commitment · AI in Schools · July 15, 2026 > The knowledge of our century must, moreover, be rethought: data ethics, critical thinking from middle school onward, philosophy from the Seconde year onward. Original French quote: Les savoirs de notre siècle doivent, par ailleurs, être repensés : l’éthique des données, l’esprit critique dès le collège, la philosophie dès la Seconde. Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) ### Provide massive digital training for teachers Commitment · Teachers and Training · July 15, 2026 > Schools must at last master the new tools by providing massive digital training for teachers, by building a public service of educational artificial intelligence, by opening laboratories where the sciences and the humanities speak to each other. Original French quote: L’école doit enfin maîtriser les nouveaux outils en formant massivement les enseignants au numérique, en bâtissant un service public de l’intelligence artificielle éducative, en ouvrant des laboratoires où sciences et humanités se parlent. Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) ## AI in government ### Guaranteeing human review of any denial of benefits, placement or permit decided with an algorithm Commitment · User Services and Administrative Procedures · July 15, 2026 > I therefore want to make these guarantees effective and to extend them: that no denial of benefits, placement or permit be handed down without an official examining it, explaining it and answering for it, within an enforceable deadline. Original French quote: Je veux donc rendre ces garanties effectives et les étendre : qu’aucun refus d’aide, de place ou de titre ne tombe sans qu’un agent l’examine, l’explique et en réponde, dans un délai opposable. Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) ### Applying safeguards on AI in public services without waiting for the European Union Commitment · Governance and Public Tools · July 15, 2026 > Since Europe has chosen to give itself time, France will not wait: what the Union puts off until tomorrow, the State will guarantee today in its public services. Original French quote: Puisque l’Europe a choisi de se donner du temps, la France n’attendra pas : ce que l’Union remet à demain, l’État le garantira dès aujourd’hui dans ses services publics. Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) ### Automating fundamental social benefits Commitment · User Services and Administrative Procedures · July 15, 2026 > Simplifying, unifying, automating fundamental benefits is now a matter of urgency. Original French quote: Simplifier, unifier, automatiser les aides fondamentales relève désormais de l’urgence. Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) ### Reserving computing power primarily for hospitals, schools and the State Goal · Governance and Public Tools · July 15, 2026 > Europe has begun; we must change scale, and this power must first serve what is not for sale: the hospital, the school, the State. Original French quote: L’Europe a commencé ; il faut changer d’échelle, et que cette puissance serve d’abord ce qui ne se vend pas : l’hôpital, l’école, l’État. Source: [assets.nationbuilder.com](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) · [archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260928122614/https://assets.nationbuilder.com/laconvention/pages/2515/attachments/original/1784151599/Auxfrancaisversionfinale1507.pdf?1784151599=) --- AI Observatory · France 2027 election · WYP.agency · https://wyp.agency/en/france-2027-election-ai/candidates/bernard-cazeneuve/