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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey, Dan Milmo and Kim Willsher

Keir Starmer opts not to attend international AI summit in Paris

Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer at the Élysée Palace
Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer at the Élysée Palace last August. The French president is co-hosting the AI summit in Paris with India’s Narendra Modi. Photograph: Andre Pain/EPA

Keir Starmer has decided not to travel to Paris for next week’s international summit on artificial intelligence, despite the attendance of other world leaders including Emmanuel Macron, Narendra Modi and JD Vance.

Sources have told the Guardian that the prime minister will not attend the summit, the latest in a series of international AI conferences started by the former prime minister Rishi Sunak last year at Bletchley Park.

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