Parmy Olson, Columnist

Paris Summit’s AI Pinky Promises Aren’t Enough

The world needed concrete commitments on safety instead of an investment pitch from France. Here are a few ideas.

February 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM UTC

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.”

Attendees at the AI Action Summit in Paris on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. — Attendees at the AI Action Summit in Paris on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025.
Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg

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Paris played host to representatives from more than 100 countries to discuss the future of artificial intelligence this week. The result was a vague agreement signed by 60 of them that does almost nothing to help make the technology safer.

The clue was in the name. The international meeting series, founded in the UK as an “AI Safety Summit” in 2023, became known as an “AI Action Summit” when it came to Paris. President Emmanuel Macron used it as a springboard to announce a €109 billion ($113 billion) investment in AI and make a pitch to the world for French tech.