GPAI Council Meeting in New Delhi, India | 20 February 2026
Co-chaired by Josephine Teo, Minister for Digital Development and Information, Singapore, and by Bae Kyunghoon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT, Korea.
- The GPAI Council convened on 20 February 2026 in New Delhi, hosted by India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, on the margins of the AI Impact Summit. The meeting brought together Ministers and senior representatives of GPAI members, partners, institutional stakeholders and the expert community, in pursuit of GPAI’s core mission: championing artificial intelligence that is human-centric, promotes growth and well-being for all people, and is safe, secure and trustworthy – grounded in the OECD AI Principles. GPAI serves as a platform through which countries convene on equal footing, informed by a multi-stakeholder expert community, to pursue common ambitions in AI, and harness its benefits for their economies and societies. The discussions were held in the spirit of the India AI Impact Summit’s overarching ambition – to harness AI’s transformative potential in the service of humanity, advancing inclusive growth and fostering innovations that place people at their centre.
- Ministers and Heads of Delegation underscored GPAI’s growing relevance and influence on the global stage, noting the increasing interest of countries around the world in joining the Partnership and welcoming two new members, Malta and Saudi Arabia, as the latest expression of this momentum. Expanding GPAI membership on the basis of shared values remains an important objective for members, ensuring that a diversity of national and regional perspectives informs a shared, values-based approach to AI worldwide.
- Ministers and Heads of Delegation commended GPAI’s accomplishments and underlined the success of the integrated partnership that was forged at the GPAI New Delhi Summit in July 2024. In particular, they highlighted how GPAI has built important bridges between research and AI policy development – guided by the 2024 GPAI Belgrade Declaration – bringing key technical issues and AI developments to the attention of policymakers.
- Ministers and Heads of Delegation welcomed updates from the OECD Secretariat supporting the GPAI on ongoing activities and contributions to GPAI’s workplan, and highlighted in their interventions their key priorities for GPAI’s future focus areas, including the following key projects:
- Further strengthening the GPAI evidence base, including expanded public policy tracking through the OECD.AI Policy Navigator, as well as new live data on AI compute capacity and on investment in AI;
- Enhancing the accessibility, usability and scope of, as well as participation in the Hiroshima AI Process voluntary Code of Conduct Reporting Framework;
- Continuing analysis of emerging AI developments, including agentic AI;
- Expanding the range of resources available on the OECD.AI Catalogue of Tools and Metrics for Trustworthy AI, through a call for additional open-source tools, and contributing to the India AI Impact Summit’s Trusted AI Commons deliverable;
- Developing an AI Policy Toolkit to support economies worldwide in harnessing the benefits of AI, in co-creation with organisations, regions and countries beyond GPAI’s direct membership;
- Examining the transformative impact of AI on agriculture and other priority sectors.
- Ministers and Heads of Delegation further welcomed an update from the three Centres of the GPAI Expert Community in Paris, Montreal and Tokyo, regarding their ongoing activities related to advancing AI pilots, challenges and actively engaging youth and future generations in technical and policy dialogues.
- Moving forward, GPAI will continue to translate shared principles into policy-relevant knowledge and practical tools, advance global collaboration and leverage its convening power to support members’ priorities.