The "Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet" is the closing declaration of the Paris AI Action Summit, co-chaired by France and India and held 10-11 February 2025. It was signed by 62 or more countries plus the African Union and the European Union, for a total of 64 listed signatories. The United States and the United Kingdom did not sign. The framework is also covered on the page Paris AI Action Summit Declaration (2025).
Summary of the document
The Statement positions the summit series under an "AI Action" heading rather than the "AI Safety" framing of the earlier Bletchley and Seoul summits, emphasizing accessibility, openness, sustainability, public interest, and reduction of digital divides alongside catastrophic-risk concerns. It sets out six priorities:
- Promoting AI accessibility to reduce digital divides
- Ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure, and trustworthy
- Making AI innovation thrive and avoiding market concentration
- Shaping the future of work and labour markets
- Making AI sustainable for people and the planet
- Reinforcing international cooperation
The document accompanies several announced actions: the launch of a Public Interest AI Platform and Incubator; the first summit-level discussion of AI and energy; an International Energy Agency (IEA) observatory on the energy impact of AI; and a network of observatories on AI in the job market.
The Statement invokes the broader Paris Pact for People and the Planet framework, linking the text to climate and Sustainable Development Goal governance rather than to safety and security governance. It reaffirms commitment to a UN-led Global Dialogue and to an Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, partially institutionalizing the body behind the International AI Safety Report.
Signatories and non-signatories
China is among the signatories. The United States and the United Kingdom, which hosted the original Bletchley and Seoul summits, did not sign, reversing the coalition structure of those earlier meetings. In his Paris speech, U.S. Vice President JD Vance signaled a U.S. shift away from a safety-first framing, consistent with Executive Order 14365 — Ensuring a National Policy Framework for AI and America's AI Action Plan. The United Kingdom cited concerns about national security language and governance provisions as its reason for not signing.
Treatment of safety
In the text, "safety" appears in subordinate clauses alongside "sustainable," "inclusive," and "ethical," and the term "frontier AI" is largely absent. This contrasts with The Bletchley Declaration (AI Safety Summit, 1–2 November 2023) and the Seoul Commitments, which concentrate on frontier AI and intolerable-risk thresholds. The Paris Statement and the Seoul Commitments are not logically inconsistent, being different genres of document, but they reflect diverging political priorities across the roughly 18 months between the Seoul and Paris summits.
Relevance to related topics
The non-signature pattern bears on AI Race Dynamics: the United States declined to sign a declaration that China signed. The episode is relevant to AI Safety Cases and Frameworks, where the international consensus on frontier safety expressed at Bletchley and Seoul appears to have fragmented. The U.S. domestic emphasis on innovation and deregulation reflected in America's AI Action Plan and Executive Order 14365 — Ensuring a National Policy Framework for AI is mirrored internationally by the U.S. non-signature. The AI-energy thread connects the document to AI Environmental Impact.
Relationships
- supports: Paris AI Action Summit Declaration (2025) (framework page)
- contradicts: The Bletchley Declaration (AI Safety Summit, 1–2 November 2023) (tonal and political reframing, not literal contradiction)
- depends-on: AI Race Dynamics, AI Safety Cases and Frameworks
- related: Frontier AI Safety Commitments (Seoul, 2024), International AI Safety Report 2025, America's AI Action Plan, Executive Order 14365 — Ensuring a National Policy Framework for AI, AI Environmental Impact