Paris Peace Forum 2025 | 29-30 Oct.
Paris, November 24, 2025 – The Policy Initiatives Director at the Paris Peace Forum Adrien Abécassis, and his deputy, Yann Bonnet, have co-signed a call to “mid-sized economies” to cooperate in order to influence the global race for competitive frontier AI models and preserve their sovereignty.
“Countries that are unable to develop their own cutting-edge models or access the computing hardware needed to train them will have to choose between dependence and weakness,” warns the note entitled “A Blueprint for Multinational Advanced AI Development,” written by 2018 Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio of the Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Canada), the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative (United Kingdom), the Centre pour la Sécurité de l’IA (CeSIA) (France), the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Germany), Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), RWTH Aachen University (Germany), and the AI & Society Institute (France).
Faced with the hyper-concentration of AI capabilities, international cooperation is essential to preserve the sovereignty, economic competitiveness and security of states. The note calls for a collective effort to pool IT infrastructure, data, and talent. Read the full text here.
This position is in line with the mission of the Paris Peace Forum, one of whose main areas of work is AI governance and sovereignty.
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