At a time when much is expected of AI and its contribution to the security and sovereignty of nations, Thales offers a hybrid, explainable, cybersafe and frugal AI, which is already incorporated into more than 100 of its products. This technology is already delivering significant advances in the protection of infrastructure, optimisation of energy consumption and defence systems.

“Thales is a key player in the field of trusted AI: our experts have developed a hybrid AI, which offers transparency, cybersecurity, energy efficiency and an ethical approach — unlike many AI systems that rely exclusively on large amounts of data and are particularly energy-intensive. Thales offers an augmented intelligence, which is capable of changing society," said Patrice Caine, Chairman and CEO of Thales.

Patrice Caine, Chairman and CEO of Thales, will take part in the dialogue between heads of state and government and business leaders at two roundtable sessions on AI and national security and on Europe’s AI champions.

• On Tuesday 11^th February, experts from cortAIx, Thales’s AI accelerator, will conduct exclusive demonstrations of the practical impacts of AI in 15 critical fields for official French and international delegations at the Thales Digital Factory. These AI-enabled solutions are designed to boost the performance of the most advanced systems and help humans make better decisions in crisis situations and high-stakes environments where data security and sovereignty are critical.

These solutions are already available and show how AI can reduce the environmental footprint of air traffic, protect airports and major events, protect maritime traffic and infrastructure, and, in the defence sector, increase the effectiveness of operational assets/resources and accelerate the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act).

Other events

• On Tuesday 11^th February, Thales’s Friendly Hackers team will take part in the Cyber Crisis Management Exercise organised by ANSSI, France’s national agency for information system security, at the Cyber Campus in Paris.
• On Tuesday11^th February, Thales will take part in two events:
  
  • Empowering AI Ecosystems through Strategic Autonomy: Lessons from Finland and France at Finnish Embassy in Paris.
  • Building Trust: Anticipating and Managing AI Risks, organised by the HEC Hub Digital and Axys in Paris.
• On Monday 10^th February, Thales will take part in Military Talks, organised by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and the Ministerial Agency for Defence AI (AMIAD), dedicated to AI for defence applications.
• As part of the Confiance.ai consortium, Thales is contributing to actions to expand the programme’s role internationally.
• On Sunday 8^th February, Thales took part in the AI Luminate conference: Evolving AI Safety for Economic Growth in Uncertain Times, ML Commons, AI Verify, LNE and Prism, in Paris.
• On Thursday 6^th February, Thales took part in the Presentation of AI Deliverables for Major French Groups, organised by French Tech Grand Paris and Wavestone in Paris.
• On Friday 24^th January, Thales took part in the French-German AI Industry Executives Dialogue, organised by the French Embassy in Berlin. This event resulted in a Call for Action, which will be presented at the AI Action Summit.
• On Tuesday 21^st January, ahead of the AI Action Summit, Thales organised a visit to its cortAIx research laboratory in Palaiseau with a presentation of its latest innovations for institutional stakeholders.

Thales and AI

Thales is a major player in trusted, cybersafe, transparent, explainable and ethical AI for armed forces, aircraft manufacturers and critical infrastructure providers. The Group files more patents than any other company in Europe in the field of AI for critical systems. It employs more than 600 engineers and 100 doctoral candidates specialising in AI. It is rganised within cortAIx, the Group’s accelerator for AI R&D and the integration of AI into sensors (sonars, radars, optronics, etc.) and complex systems. Over 100 of Thales’s products and services already incorporate AI components for defence, aerospace, cybersecurity and digital identity. Trusted, secure, sovereign AI from Thales is designed to ensure more efficient data analysis and decision support and speeds up the detection, identification and classification of objects and scenes of interest while taking account of the specific constraints of critical environments such as cybersecurity, embeddability and frugality.

 

Thales is an active member of the AI ecosystem. It has strategic partnerships with academic research institutes and with other industry players, in particular as part of the Confiance.ai programme, and has put in place an ambitious charter on the ethical development and use of AI technologies.

• In 2023, Thales’s Friendly Hackers Unit demonstrated its credentials at the CAID challenge (Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Defence) organised by the French defence procurement agency (DGA), which involved finding AI training data even when it had been deleted from the system to preserve confidentiality.
• For the French defence procurement agency’s 2024 challenge, the Group’s Friendly Hackers Unit invented a new model to detect AI-generated deepfake images.

 

About Thales Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global leader in advanced technologies specialising in three business domains: Defence & Security, Aerospace and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that help make the world safer, greener and more inclusive. The Group invests close to €4 billion a year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum technologies, cloud technologies and 6G.Thales has 81,000 employees in 68 countries. In 2023, the Group generated sales of €18.4 billion.

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