Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
In plain wordsAn international group of countries, launched in 2020 and now run together with the OECD, that brings governments and experts together to put trustworthy AI into practice.
A multistakeholder initiative of governments, launched in June 2020, that aims to bridge AI theory and practice by supporting research and applied projects on responsible AI, data governance, the future of work, and innovation and commercialization, grounded in the OECD AI PrinciplesOECD AI Principles, prop. n.: Guidelines for trustworthy AI that governments agreed through the OECD in 2019, the first such standard agreed between governments; many later laws and agreements borrowed from them.. Its expert community has worked through centers of expertise in Montreal, Paris and Tokyo. Since July 2024 it has operated as an integrated partnership with the OECD's AI policy work, under the GPAI name, with membership open to countries that adhere to the OECD Recommendation on AI; a ministerial council sets its priorities.
The data-governance project was run under the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence.
Origin
Proposed by Canada and France in 2018, initially as an 'international panel on AI' loosely modeled on the climate panel IPCC, and launched on 15 June 2020 by 15 founding members, among them the EU, the United States, India and Japan, with a secretariat at the OECD.
Usage note
Shares the acronym GPAI with the EU's general-purpose AIgeneral-purpose AI model, n.: The EU's legal name for the large, adaptable AI models behind chatbots and similar tools: models that can turn their hand to many different jobs and be built into many other products.; context usually makes the meaning clear. Observers have questioned its influence relative to the G7 and the summit series.
Related
- OECD AI PrinciplesOECD AI Principles, prop. n.: Guidelines for trustworthy AI that governments agreed through the OECD in 2019, the first such standard agreed between governments; many later laws and agreements borrowed from them.
- G7 Hiroshima AI ProcessG7 Hiroshima AI Process, prop. n.: An effort begun by the G7 group of wealthy democracies in Japan in 2023 that sets voluntary rules for companies building the most advanced AI, which now report publicly on how they follow them.
- AI governanceAI governance, n.: The rules, institutions and habits that shape how AI is built and used — from laws and treaties to technical standards and a company's own review processes.
- Global Dialogue on AI GovernanceGlobal Dialogue on AI Governance, prop. n.: A yearly United Nations meeting, launched in 2025, where all countries — joined by companies, researchers and civil society — discuss how to cooperate on governing AI.
Mentioned in
OECD AI PrinciplesOECD AI Principles, prop. n.: Guidelines for trustworthy AI that governments agreed through the OECD in 2019, the first such standard agreed between governments; many later laws and agreements borrowed from them., Global Dialogue on AI GovernanceGlobal Dialogue on AI Governance, prop. n.: A yearly United Nations meeting, launched in 2025, where all countries — joined by companies, researchers and civil society — discuss how to cooperate on governing AI., World AI Cooperation OrganizationWorld AI Cooperation Organization, prop. n.: An international organization for cooperation on AI, based in Shanghai, set up in 2026 by an agreement among 29 countries on China's initiative.