Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing will visit France from Sunday until February 12 as President Xi Jinping's special representative at the AI Action Summit, the foreign ministry said on Friday. Representatives of nearly 100 nations are gathering at the event to discuss the safe development of artificial intelligence (AI).

China is sending a vice-premier in charge of industrial policies to a high-level artificial intelligence (AI) summit in Paris next week, as a small Chinese firm shakes up the global AI race. Vice-Premier Zhang Guoqing will visit France from Sunday to Wednesday as a special representative of President Xi Jinping to the AI Action Summit,

Paris is set to become the epicenter of the global artificial intelligence conversation next week as world leaders, tech giants, and scientists gather for the AI Action Summit. Running from February 6 to 11, this week-long event aims to balance AI innovation, ethical development, and international cooperation.

The AI action summit in Paris will not yield the single global rulebook for deploying artificial intelligence (AI) systems that businesses desire – but it will help them better understand the different ways that policymakers and regulators around the world view AI governance and inform their approach to AI adoption in individual markets.

Europe also spies an opportunity to make a new bid for the AI crown. One of French President Emmanuel Macron's officials described the summit to journalists as a "wake up call" for France and Europe, adding that the bloc must not let the AI revolution "pass it by".

Global experts will debate threats from artificial intelligence (AI) at a gathering in Paris on Thursday and Friday, ahead of a summit of world leaders on the fast-moving technology.