A series of international meetings of governments, AI companies and researchers that began at Bletchley Park in England in November 2023 to discuss the risks of the most advanced AI. Later meetings were held in Seoul, Paris and New Delhi, and the focus widened from safety towards innovation, adoption and benefits, which some welcomed as broader and others criticised as a retreat from safety.
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The Bletchley summit on 1 and 2 November 2023 produced the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 28 countries including the United States and China, plus the European Union, and commissioned the International AI Safety Report. The AI Seoul Summit in May 2024 produced the Frontier AI Safety Commitments, where developers pledged to publish safety frameworks with thresholds beyond which they would not develop or deploy a model. The AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 issued a declaration the United States and United Kingdom did not sign. The AI Impact Summit in New Delhi in February 2026 closed with the New Delhi Declaration, then endorsed by 88 countries and organisations.
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