Europe 1 with AFP 10:43 a.m., March 8, 2024
The Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastieb Lecornu announced the launch of Amiad (Ministerial Defense Artificial Intelligence Agency) from July 2024. It will be led by a former Google employee, Bertrand Rondepierre.
France will launch in July an agency to develop artificial intelligence in the field of defense, with 300 million euros per year, French Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu announced on Friday to the newspaper Les Echos.
300 jobs to be filled
The objective of "Amiad" (Ministerial Agency for Artificial Intelligence in Defense), which will be headed by a former Google employee Bertrand Rondepierre, is to perfect weapons, intelligence and planning of military operations, according to the minister “Either the French army makes a date, or it fails,” summarizes Sébastien Lecornu.
By the end of 2026, the agency should hire 300 civil and military engineers, researchers, doctoral students. A research center will be established in Palaiseau, on the site of the Ecole Polytechnique, while a technical center will be located near Rennes, in Bruz, on the site specializing in information management and cyber of the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA). A "classified super computer" will be installed at Mont-Valérien, in Suresnes (Hauts-de -Seine).