At the AIM conference in Marseille last week, much of the discussion focused on the future of AI: superintelligence, productivity gains, the need for regulation without stifling innovation, and the challenge of building sovereign AI systems as part of a potential “third European way.” We asked Laurence Devillers, Professor at Sorbonne University and CNRS Paris Saclay Researcher for her perspective on the growing number of AI summits aimed at addressing these issues, on the technical future of algorithms, and on what remains to be done by public authorities and individual companies to maintain control over this field as technological progress accelerates.