Tech Bosses Urged G7 to Support US-Led AI Group

Leaders of AI companies, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, lobbied for a US-led coalition to shape global AI rules. During a closed-door lunch at the G7 Summit attended by world leaders, Amodei called for international cooperation to cover structured access to frontier models, a chip and critical components trade framework that excludes China, and coordinated responses to AI risks in cybersecurity, bioterrorism, and intelligence.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also called for a formal international forum to establish globally accepted testing standards, provide impartial analysis of AI capabilities and risks, and serve as a venue for cooperation among nations, according to an OpenAI briefing. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed the US could lead such a coalition. The backdrop of the AI discussions was the export controls imposed by the US administration on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, which went into effect after the government cited national security concerns. Anthropic is in negotiations with the Trump administration over the directive.

The US decision alarmed European governments and Silicon Valley alike, while raising concerns that even allied nations could be cut off from cutting-edge AI. French President Emmanuel Macron stated that the Anthropic dispute clarified what was at stake, warning that if the US could, from one day to the next, turn off the switch, it would ultimately damage the multitrillion-dollar US companies leading the global AI race. Macron called for stronger AI regulation and a platform for democratic cooperation to establish common standards. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that democratic nations needed access to frontier models to protect critical infrastructure, according to people familiar with the discussions.