In which city was the AI Action Summit held in February 2025?

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Correct — B, Paris. The AI Action Summit was held at the Grand Palais in Paris on 10 and 11 February 2025, and it was co-chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — the first time India led a summit in this series. More than 1,000 participants from over 100 countries attended, along with heads of government, the major AI laboratories, standards bodies and civil-society organisations. Its principal document was the 'Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet', signed by 58 countries. Two of the world's largest AI jurisdictions did not sign: the United States and the United Kingdom both declined, the UK saying publicly that the text did not go far enough on global AI governance and on national-security questions. That refusal is the single most examinable fact about Paris 2025, because it marks the point at which the summit series stopped producing consensus documents. The name matters as much as the venue. This is the third meeting in a deliberately evolving chain — the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom in November 2023, the AI Seoul Summit in the Republic of Korea in May 2024, and then Paris, where the organisers dropped 'safety' for 'action' to shift the agenda from existential risk towards deployment, public-interest AI, energy and jobs. India's co-chairmanship at Paris was also where India was announced as host of the next edition. Anchor all of this to the exam: on 13 September 2025, when this paper was set, Paris was the most recent summit and India's turn was still ahead.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) The patriotic guess, and the trap the option set is built around. India was genuinely central to Paris 2025 — Prime Minister Modi co-chaired it and India was named there as the next host — so a candidate who remembers 'India and AI in February 2025' reaches for India's software capital. But Bengaluru has never hosted an edition of this series, and when India's turn did come the venue was Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, not Bengaluru.  (c) The most intelligent wrong answer, because Rome does own a real landmark in AI governance — just a different one. The Rome Call for AI Ethics was signed there on 28 February 2020 by the Pontifical Academy for Life, Microsoft, IBM, the FAO and Italy's Ministry of Innovation, setting out three impact areas and six principles and coining the word 'algorethics'. That is a separate initiative from the intergovernmental summit chain, and Rome has hosted no edition of it.  (d) Impossible by construction. A single named event held on 10-11 February 2025 has exactly one host city, so no two of Bengaluru, Paris and Rome can both be right. BPSC attaches this fifth option to almost every question in the paper precisely so that candidates stop reading it as a signal; it is live only where the three named choices are independent items that can each be separately true, not rival answers to a single 'which city' question.

Concept: Since 2023 the world's attempt at governing artificial intelligence has run through a chain of leaders' summits, each renamed to signal a shift in emphasis. The first was the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, England, on 1-2 November 2023, chosen for its symbolism as the wartime codebreaking site; it produced the Bletchley Declaration, in which 28 countries and the European Union — including both the United States and China — acknowledged the risks of frontier AI models. The second was the AI Seoul Summit of May 2024, co-hosted by the Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom, which extended the agenda from safety alone to innovation and inclusivity and drew voluntary safety commitments from the leading model developers. The third was the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025, which widened the frame again towards public-interest AI, the labour market, energy demand and getting technology to developing countries. The fourth was to be hosted by India. Read the sequence by its names — safety, then action, then impact — and you have the arc of international AI diplomacy in three words: first fear the technology, then deploy it, then justify it by what it delivers. Alongside this leaders' track sit the binding and institutional instruments the summits are not: the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act, the OECD AI Principles of 2019, UNESCO's 2021 Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, and the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence.

State PCS 2025 Q27 — Science & Technology PYQ with Answer

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