Coordinating the research component of the National Artificial Intelligence Plan. In 2018, the French government gave Inria a new type of responsibility, tasking the Institute with the coordination of the research component of the National AI Plan. Inria will bear full responsi- bility for this assignment - which will be of benefit to the whole of France’s digital innovation and research ecosystem - through the coordination activity set up within Inria, the purpose of which is to ensure that this role is kept separate from Inria’s own research activities. Particular atten- tion will be paid to ensuring that the work undertaken as part of this assignment is consistent with the policies introduced by Inria. This work, which will be closely coordinated with the Institute’s supervising ministries (through the DGRI and the DGE) will include: ⯀ support for the drawing up of calls for projects; ⯀ forming a network of 3IA institutes, with a light approach so as to avoid taking the place of individual establishments’ policies; ⯀ supporting international initiatives relating to artificial intelligence; ⯀ the possible development of shared infrastructure; ⯀ participating in the process of defining an appropriate policy for computational resources for AI; ⯀ participating in discussions on the subject of ethics in artificial intelligence; ⯀ links with other public initiatives designed to have an economic impact. Inria will give a more prominent role to the TransAlgo platform, which deals in the transparency of algorithms, coordinating it with the artificial intelligence plan and ensuring it develops in a way that is in keeping with the work carried out by the DGE (Digital Economy) with regard to digital regulation.
