Paris AI Action Summit – A few key takeaways by Gérald Santucci
“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.” – Winston Churchill (to Neville Chamberlain directly after Munich) Now that the Paris Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, held on 10-11 February 2025 at the Grand Palais in Paris, is behind us the time has come to draw […]
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“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.” – Winston Churchill (to Neville Chamberlain directly after Munich)
Now that the Paris Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, held on 10-11 February 2025 at the Grand Palais in Paris, is behind us the time has come to draw a first assessment. Here follow our key take-aways.
No compass
First, we should regret the lack of will from all major countries to acknowledge the legacy of the previous similar events. Indeed, the AI Action Summit, co-chaired with India and signed by 61 countries, including China, was the third AI Summit organized so far. It followed the AI Safety Summit 2023 (1-2 November 2023), hosted by the United Kingdom at Bletchley Park (the birthplace of the digital, programmable computer) and signed by 28 major countries and the European Union, and the AI Seoul Summit (21-22 May 2024), co-hosted by the Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom and signed by 10 countries and the European Union. The impression prevails that each of these summits, which are basically international convenings of senior government officials, tech executives, civil society, and researchers to discuss the safety and policy implications of the world’s advanced AI models, has been a sort of political
posturing without at the end a genuine pledge to achieve common goals for humanity.
