Following several hours of deliberations, representatives from 28 countries and the European Union adopted the ‘New Delhi Declaration’ of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI, pronounced g-pay). India is hosting the summit and will chair the GPAI grouping in 2024. The ministerial declaration affirms the countries’ commitment to “principles for responsible stewardship of trustworthy AI … rooted in democratic values and human rights … and promoting trustworthy, responsible, sustainable and human-centred use of AI.”
GPAI is a grouping of countries in North and South America, Europe, and East Asia, that strives to work towards “trustworthy development, deployment, and use of AI”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the first day of the summit.
The previous summit was held in Japan, which is the outgoing chair of GPAI. “We have also agreed that GPAI, in keeping with values of partner-countries, will be an inclusive movement, including countries in the Global South and make benefits of AI available to all the people of the world,” Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar told reporters as the government announced the declaration’s release.
