This policy memo examines the evolution of the international AI Summit series, initiated at Bletchley Park in 2023 and continued through Seoul in 2024 and Paris in 2025, as a forum for cooperation on the governance of advanced artificial intelligence. It analyzes the factors underpinning the series' early successes and assesses challenges related to scope, participation, continuity, and institutional design. Drawing on comparisons with existing international governance models, the memo evaluates options for hosting arrangements, secretariat formats, participant selection, agenda setting, and meeting frequency. It proposes a set of design recommendations aimed at preserving the series' focus on advanced AI governance while balancing inclusivity, effectiveness, and long-term sustainability.
@article{arxiv.2601.02383,
title = {The Future of the AI Summit Series},
author = {Lucia Velasco and Charles Martinet and Henry de Zoete and Robert Trager and Duncan Snidal and Ben Garfinkel and Kwan Yee Ng and Haydn Belfield and Don Wallace and Yoshua Bengio and Benjamin Prud'homme and Brian Tse and Roxana Radu and Ranjit Lall and Ben Harack and Julia Morse and Nicolas Miailhe and Scott Singer and Matt Sheehan and Max Stauffer and Yi Zeng and Joslyn Barnhart and Imane Bello and Xue Lan and Oliver Guest and Duncan Cass-Beggs and Lu Chuanying and Sumaya Nur Adan and Markus Anderljung and Claire Dennis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.02383},
year = {2026}
}
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Policy memo, 39 pages, includes tables. Prepared by the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative