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Pieter Haeck and Océane Herrero
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is attending a CEO lunch at G7 along with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google Deepmind's Demis Hassabis on Wednesday.
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European leaders are meeting on Wednesday with the US president and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just days after Washington suspended access to Anthropic's latest AI models.Don't expect them to confront Donald Trump.A lunch with the world's leading artificial intelligence CEOs at the G7 meeting in Evian-les-Bains offers the first opportunity for EU leaders to ensure their voices are heard after the US blocked EU citizens from accessing Anthropic's cutting-edge tech — a move that triggered renewed calls for Europe to become less reliant on US artificial intelligence.But there are no signs Europe is on the warpath. Despite the hostile move from Washington, diplomats and officials from nations attending the gathering insist they can work with the US on minimizing AI's security risks — seeking to turn the episode into a launchpad for collaboration rather than a spat that drives the continents apart."We are ready to engage and tackle these security risks together with our like-minded partners," European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told reporters in Brussels on Tuesday in advance of the G7 get-together."On the topic of frontier models, we should be able to create unity before the end of the G7," a European diplomat said. "The question is to recreate confidence, we need to recreate a circle of trust."Wednesday's lunch is — on paper at least — not meant to address the threats AI poses to cybersecurity, or the dramatic events of the past days that illuminated inconsistencies in Washington's approach to the most advanced AI.
