Macron wants AI ban wherever it threatens children

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that artificial intelligence should be banned wherever it poses a risk to the mental health of children.

Macron, who is also pushing for a ban on certain social networks for those under 15, said: “If there is a risk for children with certain uses of AI, then it must be banned.”

He made the comments in an interview with France’s Les Echos daily on the eve of the adoption of a charter on the subject at the Paris Peace Forum.

“Just because it’s AI doesn’t mean it should be the Wild West,” Macron said, adding that AI should be banned when it “threatened” children’s “mental health or their brain.”