The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit took place in Paris from February 10-11, 2025, which highlights a pivotal need for the ongoing discourse on global AI governance.[1] In the year 2023 and 2024 similar AI summits took place in the United Kingdom (UK)[2] and in South Korea[3] respectively, but they were predominantly more concentrated on speculative long-term AI risks as artificial general intelligence (AGI) and existential threats. The 2025 Paris Summit was focused on urgent real-world concerns which include the socio-economic consequences of AI, disruptions of market labours because of AI, algorithmic accountability, and the increasing strategic competition for AI leadership.
While the summit was marked by a large global presence, the final declaration lacked concrete, practical principles and recommendations. The summit concluded with the “Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet,” which underscored the significance of human rights and the necessity of establishing an ethical AI framework. It reaffirmed broader commitments to reduce the global AI divide and foster an inclusive and ethical AI framework. Yet, the absence of binding mechanisms seemed to indicate that states would persist the development of AI policies on basis of their strategic interests, rather than adopting a unified global AI framework, at least for now.
