The first International Summit on the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in the Military was held in which country?
- (a)France
- (b)Germany
- (c)England
- (d)Netherlands
Correct — D, Netherlands.
The first international summit on Responsible AI in the Military Domain, known as REAIM, met at the World Forum in The Hague on 15–16 February 2023. The host country was the Netherlands, which convened the meeting together with the Republic of Korea.
It closed with a non-binding Call to Action on the responsible development, deployment and use of AI in the military, endorsed by about 60 countries, the United States and China among them. India attended but did not endorse it.
The idea to carry away: REAIM is the military-AI summit series, and it began in The Hague. The Bletchley Park, Paris and New Delhi summits belong to a separate series on AI in general.
- (a)France — France hosted the AI Action Summit in Paris on 10–11 February 2025, co-chaired with India. That meeting was the third in the general-AI series that started at Bletchley Park, and it dealt with AI across the economy and society rather than the military domain.
The first military-AI summit had already met in The Hague two years earlier.
- (b)Germany — Germany is the venue of the annual Munich Security Conference, a broad security forum held each February at which emerging technologies, AI included, are discussed. It is a standing conference, not the REAIM summit.
The first REAIM summit met in The Hague in February 2023, convened by the Netherlands with the Republic of Korea.
- (c)England — England is where the United Kingdom held the first AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on 1–2 November 2023. It produced the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 28 countries and the European Union, India and China included, and it concerned the safety of frontier AI in general.
On military AI the UK's part came later: it was one of the co-hosts of the second REAIM summit, held in Seoul in September 2024, not of the first in The Hague.
REAIM (Responsible AI in the Military Domain) is a state-led diplomatic process, started by the Netherlands and the Republic of Korea, to build shared norms on how armed forces develop and use AI. Its outputs are political and non-binding: the 2023 Call to Action and the 2024 Blueprint for Action.
It sits apart from the treaty track. Discussion of lethal autonomous weapons continues under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in Geneva, while the Bletchley Park line of summits deals with AI safety and impact in general.
AI now shapes targeting, intelligence analysis and decision support, so governments want agreed limits before practice hardens. The Hague, home to the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and the OPCW, was a fitting venue for the Netherlands to open that conversation.
For India the summit is a marker of position: it took part in The Hague but withheld endorsement of the Call to Action, while later co-chairing the Paris AI Action Summit and hosting the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi in February 2026.
- The first REAIM summit met at the World Forum, The Hague, Netherlands, on 15–16 February 2023.
- It was convened jointly by the Netherlands and the Republic of Korea.
- Its outcome was a non-binding Call to Action endorsed by about 60 countries, including the United States and China.
- India took part in the 2023 Hague summit but did not endorse the Call to Action.
- The United States launched its Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy at the Hague summit.
- The second REAIM summit met in Seoul on 9–10 September 2024 and adopted a Blueprint for Action; China did not endorse it.
- Co-hosts of the Seoul edition were the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, Kenya, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
- The third REAIM summit met in A Coruña, Spain, on 4–5 February 2026.
- The general-AI summit series ran separately: Bletchley Park (November 2023), Seoul (May 2024), Paris (February 2025) and New Delhi (February 2026).
- The Hague also hosts the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and the OPCW.
The stem asks for the first summit of the military-AI (REAIM) series, which met in The Hague. The Bletchley-to-Delhi series is about AI in general and sits on a different calendar.
- Reading 'summit on Artificial Intelligence' and reaching for Bletchley Park (England) or Paris (France): those belong to the general-AI series, while the stem specifies the military domain.
- Transferring the United Kingdom's co-host role at the second REAIM summit (Seoul, 2024) onto the venue of the first (The Hague, 2023).
- Mixing the two Seoul meetings of 2024: the AI Seoul Summit in May (general AI, UK–Korea) and REAIM in September (military AI).
- Treating 'held in' as 'co-hosted by': the Republic of Korea co-convened the 2023 summit, but the venue was The Hague.
This is a venue-recall item: identify the summit series from the phrase 'responsible use of AI in the military', then name the host country of the numbered edition asked for.
Variants swap the ordinal (first or second), ask for the outcome document (Call to Action or Blueprint for Action), or ask for the convening pair. Statement-style items place a REAIM fact beside a Bletchley Park fact to test whether the two series are kept apart.
RPSC_2023_PRE_Prelims2023_Q1082023Same shape: name the host country of a named AI summit. That item asks about the ITU's AI for Good Global Summit 2023, a civilian meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland; this one asks about the military-domain REAIM summit in The Hague. Different series, different host.
UPPSC_2022_MAINS_GSIII_Q182022Same theme, different register: that Mains question asks for an analytical account of AI's role and effects in military and civil sectors. This prelims item tests one recall fact, the venue of the first international summit on military AI, which can serve as an example in such an answer.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The 'Call to Action' on the responsible development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence in the military domain (February 2023) emerged from a summit convened jointly by which two countries?
- (a)Netherlands and Republic of Korea
- (b)United Kingdom and Republic of Korea
- (c)France and India
- (d)Netherlands and United States
Answera — The first REAIM summit in The Hague was convened by the Netherlands together with the Republic of Korea, and the Call to Action was its outcome document.(b) is the pairing behind the AI Seoul Summit of May 2024, part of the general-AI series. (c) co-chaired the Paris AI Action Summit of February 2025. (d) fails because the United States attended The Hague and launched its own Political Declaration there, but the convening partner was the Republic of Korea.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The 'Blueprint for Action' on responsible artificial intelligence in the military domain was adopted at a summit held in:
- (a)The Hague, February 2023
- (b)Seoul, September 2024
- (c)Bletchley Park, November 2023
- (d)Paris, February 2025
Answerb — The Blueprint for Action was the outcome of the second REAIM summit in Seoul on 9–10 September 2024.(a) produced the Call to Action, the first REAIM outcome. (c) produced the Bletchley Declaration on AI safety. (d) was the AI Action Summit, in the general-AI series, with no military-AI blueprint.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Consider the following statements: 1. The first summit on Responsible AI in the Military Domain (REAIM) was held in The Hague in February 2023. 2. The Bletchley Declaration on AI safety was adopted at a summit held in England in November 2023. 3. India endorsed the Call to Action issued at the 2023 REAIM summit. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- (a)1 and 2 only
- (b)2 and 3 only
- (c)1 and 3 only
- (d)1, 2 and 3
Answera — Statement 1 is correct: the first REAIM summit met in The Hague on 15–16 February 2023. Statement 2 is correct: the Bletchley Declaration came out of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, England, on 1–2 November 2023.Statement 3 is wrong: India took part in The Hague but did not endorse the Call to Action, although it did sign the Bletchley Declaration. So (b), (c) and (d), which each include statement 3, fail.