India to co-chair Paris AI summit in February: France

Paris: A French-organised summit on artificial intelligence (AI) scheduled for early February in Paris "will be co-chaired with India", minister Clara Chappaz said Wednesday after a cabinet meeting.

Dubbed the "Summit for Action on Artificial Intelligence", the gathering "will bring together leaders from all over the world from governments, civil society (and) the world of research and business", Chappaz added.

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, his counterpart at rival Anthropic Dario Amodei, and MistralAI boss Arthur Mensch would be among industry heavyweights attending the February 10-11 summit, Chappaz said.


Demis Hassabis, a chemistry Nobel winner who heads Google's DeepMind AI subsidiary, and economics Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu are also expected, as are business leaders from German AI startup Aleph Alpha, Accenture, Mozilla and Signal, she added.

Almost 1,000 heads of state and government, bosses, think tanks, campaign groups, research institutes and artists have been invited to the Paris summit.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has confirmed his participation, while French President Emmanuel Macron said in November he had invited Donald Trump, who will have just taken office as US president, and the Republican's confidant and X social network owner Elon Musk.

Macron hopes the event will both put France and Europe on the global artificial intelligence map and lay bare to the public the issues raised by the technology.

Three main thrusts of discussion will be making energy-hungry AI systems environmentally sustainable, having them operate in the public interest and setting up more inclusive global governance of the technology.

Scientific events will bring together researchers and economists in the run-up to the summit, which will also be flanked by a business and artistic programme.

The summit itself will be held in the sumptuous Grand Palais building by the river Seine, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900.