France's Culture Minister Draws a Hard Line: No Public Subsidies for AI, Heavy Penalties for Gender Disparity

Catherine Pégard outlined a bold roadmap at Cannes, including funding bans for AI-generated scripts and a financial penalty system to force gender parity.

Catherine Pégard, France’s newly appointed Minister of Culture, used her inaugural Cannes address to assert a fierce defense of the “French exception.” Speaking to industry professionals at the annua…