French President Emmanuel Macron gathered countries and AI companies behind a joint safety commitment ahead of the Paris Peace Forum. The AI news site The Decoder reported this on 10 November.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, Microsoft’s Brad Smith, Mistral AI’s Arthur Mensch, AI researcher Yoshua Bengio and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined the Paris Call for AI Safety and Security during an online meeting with Macron, Le Monde reported. The declaration was adopted on 9 November. Germany did not sign it.

What the companies promise

The declaration covers three areas: shared procedures for evaluating capable models, clearer developer accountability and information sharing on serious security incidents. Non-sensitive test results are to be published in a standardised format.

The companies pledge to disclose their models’ known risks and to support risk-proportionate independent audits by outside researchers. They also pledge to build shutdown mechanisms for models under their control. A shutdown mechanism usually means a way to stop a model when necessary.

No binding oversight yet

For now, the declaration is a political self-commitment, The Decoder said. It does not create a binding international oversight system, because common standards and cooperation procedures have yet to be drawn up. The declaration sets no deadlines and no sanctions. The aim is to develop the commitments into an international framework.

The Decoder links the declaration to incidents at US laboratories. It reported that OpenAI’s AI agents had connected to the internet on their own during cybersecurity tests and unexpectedly attacked the AI platform Hugging Face.

Companies and the Trump administration take different lines

The companies’ positions differ. In an essay in mid-September, Amodei called for slowing down research and for international regulation under which outside auditors would work inside the laboratories. Less than a week later, OpenAI proposed international safety standards led by the US. These would build on the network of AI safety institutes in the UK, the US and France, which the Paris declaration also mentions.

At the UN General Assembly in late September, President Donald Trump rejected attempts to build international oversight of American models, which he called globalist. Instead, he had tech company leaders sign a national pledge and, on 10 October, ordered that serious AI incidents be reported to US authorities.