Dominique de Villepin: Regulating AI through strategic public procurement to steer toward a European model
Proposal put forward by Dominique de Villepin on March 6, 2026. Topic: AI Regulation and the AI Act. The observatory also publishes quotes from 16 other public figures on this topic.
The solution: regulation that protects the internal market through strategic public procurement; regulation that adapts to the differences in approach between American, Chinese and European companies, in order to steer toward a European model of AI.
Original quote (French)
La solution : une régulation qui protège le marché intérieur grâce à une commande publique stratégique ; une régulation qui s’adapte aux différences d’approches entre entreprises américaines, chinoises et européennes, pour aiguiller vers un modèle européen de l’IA.Source: lafrancehumaniste.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Antoine Mikolajczak: Create a body of randomly selected citizens on ethical issues related to AI
- Bernard Cazeneuve: Turning INESIA into an authority assessing AI systems before and after deployment
- Bruno Le Maire: Controlling algorithms through counter-algorithms mastered in Europe rather than through law
- Bruno Retailleau: Establish a three-year experimental exemption from the GDPR and the AI Act for strategic projects
- David Lisnard: Believes that France and Europe must produce AI and robotics, not merely regulate them
- Emmanuel Maurel: Achieve an international treaty regulating AI and its players
- François Ruffin: Cites the ecological, social and strategic impacts of AI among the major issues to be addressed
- Gabriel Attal: Create international AI regulation modeled on nuclear cooperation
- Jean-François Legendre: Regulating artificial intelligence by law
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Ban AI systems designed to simulate an emotional relationship with the user
- Marine Tondelier: Require AI system designers to match model size to the complexity of queries
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: Systematically Audit AI Models to Prevent Bias
- Olivier Faure: Believes we should not entrust AI with what we would not entrust to a human being
- Raphaël Glucksmann: Driving an international AI treaty for very high-risk uses
- Sarah Knafo: Repeal Two Regulations for Each New One in Strategic Sectors
- Édouard Philippe: Simplify the European legal framework applicable to AI
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