France's Macron to host meeting with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Paris on Tuesday

FILE PHOTO: France's President Emmanuel Macron attends a meeting during the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 19, 2023. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Pool via REUTERS

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI which runs ChatGPT, at the Elysee palace on Tuesday to discuss France's place in the global race for artificial intelligence among other issues, his office said.

Macron, who has been an ardent defender of France as a "startup nation", will also discuss with Altman the regulation necessary at the European and international level to reconcile innovation and ethical and democratic issues, the Elysee said.

(Reporting by Michel Rose, editing by Tassilo Hummel)