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12-02-2025
PARIS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the inaugural address of the AI Action Summit in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron, EU Commission president Urusula Von Der Leyen, and UN chief Antonio Guterres were also present. In his address, PM Modi called for investment in skilling and reskilling people for an artificial intelligence (AI)- driven future. He also asserted that governance is about ensuring access to everyone, especially in the Global South.
France confirmed that India will be hosting the next AI summit after PM Modi expressed interest. India also assured France of full support for its initiatives on AI.
Modi has attended a dinner hosted by President Macron at the Elysee Palace in honour of visiting Heads of Government and State.
The dinner was also attended by tech CEOs and several other distinguished invitees to the summit.
The AI Action Summit assumes significance in the wake of tech disruption by China’s DeepSeek. IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India plans to develop a domestic AI model.
Modi and Macron will also hold discussions in both restricted and delegation formats and address the India-France CEO’s Forum.
On Wednesday, Modi will visit Mazargues War Cemetery, maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Marseille, to pay tribute to the sacrifices made by Indian soldiers in World War I.
Modi and Macron will also visit Cadarache, the site of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a high-science project.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that the AI summit is a natural outcome of India’s growing strategic relations with France.
The United States and the UK did not sign the Paris AI Summit’s declaration, ‘Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence.’
The communique prioritizes “ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all” and “making AI sustainable for people and the planet.”
President Emmanuel Macron’s office said India will host the next international summit on artificial intelligence after co-hosting with France in Paris.
“I welcome the decision to set up the AI foundation at the Council for Sustainable AI. I congratulate France and my dear friend President Macron for their initiatives and assure our full support. We must also make the global partnership for AI truly global in nature. It should be more inclusive of the Global South and its priorities, concerns and needs,” PM Modi said.
“The AI Action Summit in Paris is a commendable effort to bring together world leaders, policy makers, thinkers, innovators and youngsters to have meaningful conversations around AI,” said PM Modi in a post on X.
PM Modi announced that India would be happy to host the next AI Action Summit.
US Vice President JD Vance said, “We feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias and that American AI will not be co-opted into a tool for authoritarian censorship.”
“The United States of America is the leader in AI and our administration plans to keep it that way,” he added. Mediawen Founder and CEO Erwan de Kerautem said that France and India are together in core values for the future of digital and Europe and expressed admiration for the Unified Payment Interface (UPI).
Kerautem said that Europe and India, hand in hand, can build a kind of third way of looking at the digital. He shared his experience of collaborating with Indian companies. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
