AI Action Summit Draft Declaration Leaked

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FEB 10

Above: People take part in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, at the Grand Palais, in Paris, on Feb. 10, 2025. Image copyright: JOEL SAGET/Contributor/AFP via Getty Imagesstory last updated FEB 10

The Facts

A draft statement set to be signed by countries attending Paris's AI Action Summit has reportedly been leaked ahead of the final document's publication. The draft statement calls for diversity, equality, and inclusivity within the AI ecosystem, AI sustainability, and announces a "Public Interest AI Platform and Incubator."
The AI Action Summit is taking place in Paris between Feb. 10-11, 2025 following previous summits held in the UK in November 2023 and South Korea in May 2024, with India and France serving as co-chairs.
The Summit's website describes a prospective AI incubator as a "new global platform... serving the public interest" and "developing artificial intelligence common goods in the field of data, open models and citizen participation." It is described as a "collective effort" including dozens of countries as hundreds of civil society organizations and businesses.

The Spin

Narrative A

The AI Action Summit aims to harness AI for positive change by fostering global collaboration to ensure innovation serves the public good, respects human rights, and mitigates the risks of misuse. Rather than worrying about far-fetched existential fears of superintelligence, the Summit rightly focuses on achieving consensus on issues such as AI's impact on the environment, ensuring inclusivity, and countering challenges to information integrity.

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Narrative B

The AI Action Summit's draft declaration offers no real action to address the global security risks posed by superintelligence. While full of pleasantries like "sustainability" and "diversity," the text fails to tackle the very real threats posed by advanced AI. By ignoring key issues discussed at previous summits, it represents a missed opportunity for world leaders to address the dangers of AI, leaving us vulnerable to the existential risks that experts have warned about for years.

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