A MANIFESTO AND CALL FROM EUROPE'S LEADERS
FOR THE ADOPTION OF AI

SIGN THIS MANIFESTO WITH CEOs OF ADOPT AI
SIGN THIS MANIFESTO WITH CEOs OF ADOPT AI
Our priority is to give Europe back its full place in international competition. AI is no longer merely a technological challenge, but an issue of adoption for our organisations. Early adopters will benefit from greater growth, resilience and innovation. 

This manifesto calls for collective mobilisation to accompany the extraordinary transformations that AI is causing within our companies, our administrations and society. This race for adoption must not be pursued at any cost: we, European companies, commit to making AI a lever for enhancing our employees and creating long-term value. 

We call on the European public authorities to increase their efforts and to coordinate an ambitious strategy to encourage the massive and responsible adoption of AI within our organisations and administrations.

Our commitments as a company adopting AI:

  • To deploy a policy of increasing human capabilities through AI alongside the automation of tasks, in order to strengthen collective performance.
  • To provide massive training for all our teams in the new professions augmented by AI, paying particular attention to the transmission of knowledge to young people and the inclusion of seniors who are most excluded from technology. 
  • To adapt our organisational models to this technological transformation in order to enable its large-scale dissemination, while ensuring that humans remain at the centre of decision-making processes. 
  • To ensure the full mastery of our AI systems, relying on strong internal technological knowledge, mechanisms for portability and hybridisation of AIs with European systems, protection of the most sensitive data, deployment of supervision and control policies, and internalisation of key technological components. 
  • To implement a trustworthy AI policy, respectful of privacy, protective of data and energy efficient. 

To go further, we call on the European public authorities to:

  • Rethink the education system for AI, by establishing long-term skills planning exercises to anticipate the evolution of professions. Training for young graduates must be adapted to prepare the «AI native» generation, and vocational training must be redesigned.
  • Make the labour market more fluid and secure in order to facilitate career guidance, transition, and professional training in an uncertain context marked by the automation of tasks.
  • Lead the way in the adoption of AI, with administrations setting an example in the useful application of AI in the implementation of public policies, for the benefit of public servants and citizens.
  • Simplify the adoption of AI in Europe by harmonising European regulation and avoiding market fragmentation caused by heterogeneous national rules.
  • Establish targeted programmes to support SMEs and mid-sized companies (traditional partners of large enterprises) in their AI transformation, and to support and finance start-ups and the technological champions of tomorrow.
  • Engage in a societal debate on the transformation of the value of work and the new forms of professional transition in the age of AI.
Together, let us give Europe the means for its technological leadership.