5 outcomes from the Paris AI Summit 2025

Action is the primary outcome that the AI summit in Paris in 2025 is promoting. But action in what areas of AI? Read on to find out.

1. AI can be powerful but it requires intervention to prevent inequality and power abuses 

There are absolutely some positive public use cases for AI, and it has massive potential to improve healthcare, education, and energy usage. However, all this potential depends on better intervention and regulation for AI. 

The reason for this is that without proper intervention the technology of AI is likely to do what technology often does, widen the gap between those who choose or need to use it, and those who control it. Indeed, one of the biggest risks that AI poses to humanity is that it could potentially put increased power in the laps of a few private individuals rather than with the democratically elected and regulated bodies of government. 

The outcome of this is that France is suggesting that there should be National laws and regulations over AI and that there needs to be a platform that operates globally to facilitate these laws as well as encourage AI projects that are in the public interest.

2. It's predicted that AI is likely to impact at least almost 40% of jobs worldwide 

It's a scary statistic, but one that is believed to be accurate at this time, that almost 40% of current jobs across the globe will be impacted by AI. What this means for those people in those jobs is less agreed upon. Some suggest that AI has great and positive potential in augmenting the role of specialised and well-paid workers. Others suggest that AI’s potential for the replacement and displacement of humans, largely from the unskilled and poorly paid sector of the workforce could have a largely negative impact, even on positions traditionally thought of as safe. 

The solution to this issue is yet unknown. Although there are calls for better education in such jobs both for improving AI literacy so people do not get left behind and for reskilling and upskilling giving individuals better autonomy and choice over their career future despite AI’s influence. 

3. European AI Is a player in the global market, although will require significant funding to match that of America and China 

The competition for dominance over AI is being described as an arms race, although AI’s scope relates to much more than defence projects. This arms race continues to rage, as AI models from other countries such as China are now entering the market. This R1 LLM or large language model DeepSeek matches Chat GPT and Gemini, although China claims that they were able to make it at a much lower cost. 

Additionally, America’s new President Donald Trump has committed to an AI private investment undertaking of $500 billion, named Stargate. In response to this France’s PM, Macron has pledged €109 billion for AI development purely in France. A move that many suggest is to mark France out as a leader in the field. Indeed, Macron has been very clear in his support of France’s native Mistral AI and its chatbot service encouraging people to choose European versions over others. 

Additionally, a group of investors from around the world has announced they will be sinking €150 billion into funding European developments in AI. Although this funding is dependent on an increase in competitiveness, and transparency within the European AI framework.

4. Continued use and development of AI safety tools are required 

Another outcome from the 10th-11th February AI summit in Paris 2025 is that AI safety tools should continue to be used, but new and better ones need to be developed as well. 

Currently, governments are testing and releasing AI safety tools, and many safety institutes dedicated solely to AI risk are being opened across the world. However, there are still concerns over the ultimate direction and ethical position of AI, in particular AGI or artificial general intelligence. AGI is a form of technology where a machine can emulate a human brain in terms of understanding and learning.

What this means is that while there are plenty of steps being taken to safeguard the use of AI, perhaps stricter regulations are required to keep pace with the rapidly developing technology in this sector. 

5. International Standards for AI Regulation are needed 

Currently, there is no unified global framework governing AI regulation. This poses a problem as it could lead to a wide range of abuses including social scoring, environmental abuse, and predictive policing. 

Some bodies are working against this such as the AI Act being developed in the EU which will ban social scoring the like of which happens in China. However, such regulation is not global and currently does not include the UK, US, China, or many other countries, leaving the potential for AI abuse very high. Overall this points to the need for an inclusive global governance system for AI. 

From the Paris AI summit we can deduce that AI is well and truly here, and for good or bad Pandora can no longer close the box. The good news is that there is much good it can do from helping to achieve medical breakthroughs to making education more equal for all. 

However, just because it holds the potential for good does not mean that checks and balances don't need to be put in place. Nor does it mean that continued development and regulation do not need to happen. Indeed, as the five outcomes of the Paris AI summit suggest:

1. AI requires intervention to prevent power abuses 
2. AI has the potential to impact 40% of jobs globally 
3. European AI requires additional funding to keep pace with the USA and China 
4. AI safety tools must continue to be used and developed
5. International standards of regulation for AI are required. 

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