AI Action Summit in Paris, France
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AI Action Summit 2025
France will host the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris from February 10 to February 11, 2025.
Source: Seerist; Elysee.fr
Venue Location in Paris for AI Action Summit 2025
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AI Action Summit 2025 Five Main Themes
Future of Work. Promote AI usage that enhances productivity and well-being.
Trusted AI. Consolidate mechanisms to build trust in AI, based on objective scientific consensus on safety and security issues.
Public Interest AI. Define, build, and deliver critical open public infrastructure for global AI to drive beneficial social, economic, and environmental outcomes in the public interest.
Innovation and Culture. Support and build dynamic and sustainable innovation ecosystems that work with all economic sectors, including cultural and creative industries.
Global AI Governance. Shape and effective and inclusive framework of international governance of AI.
Paris, France
Paris is the political and economic capital of France. Most of the largest French publicly traded companies, as well as local branches of foreign companies, are located in the city. Seerist’s City Profiles provide detailed information about Paris, France, including personal safety recommendations.
Source: Control Risks
IN FOCUS
Protests in Paris are frequent. Most are scheduled in advance and peaceful, but spontaneous unrest can occur. Protests cause traffic disruption through road closures. Use of heavy-handed crowd control methods by police can expose bystanders to threats of injury.
Petty theft is common in Paris, especially in areas that see high foot traffic during the peak tourism season (May-October). Thieves increasingly single out wealthy looking tourists in affluent areas and increasingly resort to violence to steal valuables such as watches or bags.
Paris remains a target for Islamist militant attacks. Attacks primarily involve unsophisticated low-cost methods such as use of bladed weapons and vehicles and are generally committed by radicalised individuals. They are most likely to be indiscriminate and target open areas.
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Tourism-driven crime
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Take standard precautions to mitigate risk of petty/street crime, particularly in public transport and tourist areas.
Verified Security Event Trends
Verified security events within a 6.2-mile (10 km) radius of Grand Palais from 2024 to 2025 indicate that unrest peaked during late spring and mid-summer.
Approximately 86.6% of the 239 total Unrest events were protests.
Heatmap of Verified Unrest Events (1 Feb 2024 – 1 Feb 2025)
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PARIS
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February 2024
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May 2024
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January 2025
Recent Verified Events in Central Paris
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Heatmap showing 21 verified events (18 related to unrest; 5 to crime) over the past 60 days (7 December 2024 – 4 February 2025) in vicinity of the AI Action Summit venue.
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Monitor Unrest During Summit Using EventsAI
Seerist Search Library contains saved searches, including one with keywords for identifying social media and events relating to protests and demonstrations. When applied to Paris, the search shows multiple EventsAI that give insight into upcoming unrest activity in Paris.
Example Use Case
‘Global Protests’ search from Seerist’s Search Library with ‘Paris’ selected as the geography for a specified date range (e.g., 26 – 31 January 2025).
Control Risks Analysis
Planned protests highlight increasing global anti-AI movement, company-specific targeting possible
On 10-11 February, France will host the third Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris.
French activist group Anti-Tech Resistance announced plans to stage a week of action against the summit in Paris.
Campaign group Stop AI announced its intention to stage protests in more than 17 countries, highlighting the increasing international reach of the anti-AI movement.
Company-specific targeting at the summit cannot be ruled out, given that US-based anti-tech groups have launched company-specific campaigns.
Rallying point The AI summit will be a rallying point for anti-tech activists globally. The campaign group Pause AI, which is calling for an international ban on the “creation of a superintelligent AI”, announced an intent to stage protests against the summit in France, US, Canada, UK, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Czechia, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, DR Congo, Republic of Congo, Chad, Cameroon and Australia between 9-11 February (see Future Events for further details of the protests). While the geographical spread of the protest indicates a growing internationalisation of the anti-AI movement, these protests are unlikely to lead to significant disruptions to businesses. Based on precedent, only a few dozen campaigners will attend each of the protests.
Protests planned French President Emmanuel Macron alongside India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host the summit, which will also attract leading AI and tech companies to Paris. The main agenda items will include “public interest in AI”, “future of work”, “innovation and culture”, “trust in AI” and “global AI governance”.
French activist group Anti-Tech Resistance announced plans to stage a demonstration outside the summit at the Grand Palais venue on 9 February. The group argues that AI would enable “totalitarian technology” that would “escape human democratic controls”. It is also organising an alternative AI summit on 8 February in Paris and called for support for a “week of action” against the official AI summit. It has not released further details.
In November 2024, approximately 20 members of the group disrupted the European Cyber Week event in Rennes, France by getting up on the stage and interrupting the event by chanting slogans. Security is likely to be significantly tighter at the official AI summit in Paris, but disruptive protest actions at or near the summit locations cannot be ruled out during the event. However, protests are very likely to remain peaceful and will be aimed at causing reputational damage.
Company-specific targeting possible Although no group has so far announced company-specific targeting at the summit, such action should not be ruled out. US-based groups such as No Tech For Apartheid and Stop AI have both launched company-specific campaigns, including over allegations that tech companies would be providing services to Israel’s military and therefore supporting its operations in the Palestinian Territories. Activists affiliated to these groups previously staged protests inside and outside of corporate offices and, on at least one occasion, carried out a lock-on at an office of a tech company in San Francisco, US. International news coverage of the summit in Paris has the potential to trigger summit-related protest action against companies in the US in particular in the coming weeks.
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Personal Safety Recommendations
Remain vigilant of your surroundings and of traffic conditions, including bikes and scooters.
Avoid openly displaying expensive items in public.
Avoid taking public transport alone in the evening, consider using taxis in later hours of the day.
Avoid large gatherings as a precautionary measure.
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