Dominique de Villepin: Consolidating a corps of senior technical civil servants to inform AI regulation
Proposal put forward by Dominique de Villepin on February 10, 2026. Topic: Governance and Public Tools. The observatory also publishes quotes from 13 other public figures on this topic.
it is urgent to consolidate a corps of "senior technical civil servants" capable of continuously feeding the public authorities and the legislator, in order to strengthen regulation through vigorous enforcement, a guarantee of active sovereignty.
Original quote (French)
il est urgent de consolider un corps de « hauts fonctionnaires techniques » capables de nourrir la puissance publique et le législateur en permanence, pour renforcer la régulation par une exécution vigoureuse, gage d’une souveraineté active.Source: lafrancehumaniste.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Bernard Cazeneuve: Applying safeguards on AI in public services without waiting for the European Union
- Bruno Le Maire: Using AI to rewrite and simplify the codes (labor, environment, construction)
- Bruno Retailleau: Create a full ministry in charge of AI and provide every civil servant with an AI assistant
- David Lisnard: Believes that AI makes necessary a state that is strong on sovereign functions and able to invest in infrastructure
- Emmanuel Dubuisson: Equipping each major public service function with a robust digital system and public indicators
- Emmanuel Maurel: Maintaining the use of AI against tax fraud, alongside human resources
- Florian Philippot: Make the source code of public tools open and auditable
- Gabriel Attal: Cites AI among his four priority projects, alongside schools, borders and wages
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Create a public domain for data bringing together the data of public services, administrations and companies
- Juan Branco: Create a telecoms corps specialized notably in algorithmic and quantum computing
- Marine Tondelier: Generalize free software in public administrations (open source first)
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: Equipping government agencies with free-license software developed under State project management
- Édouard Philippe: Transforming the State through AI for more efficient public services
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