Politico February 11, 2025
The Paris AI Action Summit, the latest in a series of high-profile gatherings to set the course of global AI policy, ended on Tuesday not with a bang but with a whimper.
American Vice President JD Vance showed up, but Elon Musk — invited personally by French President Emmanuel Macron — notably did not join the crowd under the dome of the Grand Palais. And both the U.S. and U.K. refused to sign the main political declaration to emerge from the summit, a document that was supposed to promote open, inclusive and sustainable AI development.
By Tuesday, it was clear that the major global powers present at the summit were diverging on AI — both from one another, and from...