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Published by CSIS in February 2025, this piece is useful context for understanding how international AI governance norms are shifting away from safety-centric frameworks toward economic and innovation priorities, relevant to coordination and policy discussions in AI safety.

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CSIS analyst Laura Caroli examines the Paris AI Action Summit (February 10-11, 2025), analyzing how it differed from previous UK and Seoul summits by shifting focus from AI safety to AI adoption, innovation, and investment. The piece explores France's optimistic framing of AI governance under Macron's leadership and its implications for international AI coordination.

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•The Paris summit marked a narrative shift from 'safety' to 'action,' reflecting France's emphasis on AI adoption and opportunity over risk management.
•It was the third in a series of major international AI summits, following the UK AI Safety Summit (Nov 2023) and AI Seoul Summit (May 2024).
•French President Macron deliberately framed AI through a lens of optimism and investment rather than precautionary safety governance.
•The summit represents an evolving international diplomacy landscape around AI, with different host nations shaping the agenda and tone.
•The name change from 'Safety Summit' to 'Action Summit' signals a broader geopolitical tension between safety-focused and capability/growth-focused AI governance approaches.

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Laura Caroli

Published February 14, 2025

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An audio version of “ [France’s AI Action Summit](https://www.csis.org/analysis/frances-ai-action-summit),” a new critical questions by CSIS's Laura Caroli. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

The Paris AI Action Summit took place on February 10–11, following the UK AI Safety Summit (November 1–2, 2023) and the AI Seoul Summit (May 21–22, 2024). It was

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