THE PARIS DECLARATION ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

10-11 February 2025, Paris

This Declaration results from the collective effort of like-minded technologists and builders who believe the key to a more prosperous future is a global technology architecture with liberal democratic values and uncontested leadership by the West.

1. The “Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet” demonstrates deep-rooted unseriousness at the heart of the AI Action Summit. The Statement says nothing of substance. It’s nearly unintelligible commitments are meaningless, emerging from a process that will produce little except to prolong a parade of empty international gatherings for years to come. This is the hard truth.

2. Leadership in AI requires action. As the defining technology of our era, AI dominance must fully remain in the hands of the West. AI and its associated innovations will profoundly impact economic, military, and geopolitical power. The West - and not China or its ever-growing list of techno-authoritarian allies - must secure its primacy in AI and control the technology’s future.

3. The undersigned hereby offer this Paris Declaration to assert a shared alternative vision for the future of AI:

   1. We believe a strong, clear-eyed, and Western-led international order for AI is the key to ensuring a safe, secure, prosperous, and democratically aligned technological future.

   2. The West must be the first to achieve global AI dominance. To win, we must marshal our greatest talents, blast through bottlenecks to key data and energy inputs, develop a regulatory regime aligned with innovation and not stagnation, and be fearless in denying our rivals’ AI ambitions.

   3. Military and hard power uses are important and laudable applications of AI. Hard power has secured the world for democracy and free markets, and we are not shy about saying so. There should be no taboo against the military uses of AI amongst institutional investors and otherwise. Indeed, more should be invested in these areas. To the extent AI and autonomous warfare necessitates new arms control treaties, we must negotiate from a position of dominance.

   4. Western-aligned nations must forge a new “sphere of influence” on AI. The weak, sclerotic machinery of 20th century international governance has produced next to nothing on AI. This will not change. Nations must prioritize working outside of these channels to forge an effective sphere of influence that can secure new and powerful AI systems.

   5. Frontier labs must choose sides. In this era, technological power must align with the national interest and liberal democratic values. There is no longer room for half-measures or hesitation from companies that are driving AI progress forward. They must divest themselves from Chinese influence, publicly committing to Western victory in this most vital of technologies.