Previous Year Question
Consider the following statements regarding AI Action Summit held in Grand Palais, Paris in February 2025 :
I. Co-chaired with India, the event builds on the advances made at the Bletchley Park Summit held in 2023 and the Seoul Summit held in 2024.
II. Along with other countries, US and UK also signed the declaration on inclusive and sustainable AI.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
I only
II only
Both I and II
Neither I nor II
Correct Answer: A
Detailed Solution
Statement I is correct. The AI Action Summit was held at the Grand Palais in Paris on 10–11 February 2025 and was co-chaired by India and France. The Summit was organised to build on the progress made at the Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit of November 2023 and the Seoul AI Summit of May 2024.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi represented India and President Emmanuel Macron represented France as co-chairs of the Summit. The India–France Joint Statement also explicitly states that the Paris Summit built upon the important milestones reached at the Bletchley Park and Seoul Summits.
Statement II is incorrect. The Summit issued the “Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet.” Its official list of signatory countries includes India, France, China, Japan, Germany, Canada and several others, but the United States and the United Kingdom are not among the signatories.
An important distinction should be noted here—the UK may appear in a list associated with the Paris Pact for People and the Planet, but that is not the signatory-country list of the AI Summit's Inclusive and Sustainable AI Statement. Therefore, it does not make Statement II correct.