The recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, held from February 10 to 11, 2025, culminated in a significant declaration endorsed by over 60 countries, including France, China, India, and Germany. The Paris Declaration adopted a platform-based approach, which CIPP has long advocated. This “Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet" emphasizes that AI should be “open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all" and aims to make “AI sustainable for people and the planet."

According to the French national newspaper Le Monde, the current trajectory risks concentrating power in a small number of private actors, threatening national sovereignty in AI leadership. France proposed a global platform to incubate public interest AI projects with independent, open-access, and sovereign AI solutions, and this was incorporated in the declaration.

The declaration states: “Founding members have launched a major Public Interest AI Platform and Incubator to support, amplify, and decrease fragmentation between existing public and private initiatives on Public Interest AI and address digital divides. The Public Interest AI Initiative will sustain and support digital public goods and technical assistance and capacity-building projects in data, model development, openness and transparency, audit, compute, talent, financing and collaboration to........

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