TL;DRAmodei and Hassabis proposed a US-led AI coalition at the G7. Altman called for an international testing forum. No binding commitments emerged.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis used a closed-door lunch at the G7 summit on Wednesday to call for a US-led coalition that would shape international rules and standards for artificial intelligence, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions who spoke to CNBC on condition of anonymity. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed that the US could lead such a coalition, according to one of those people and a third person familiar with the talks.
The meeting took place in Évian-les-Bains, France, on the final day of the three-day summit. About a dozen tech executives attended the lunch alongside G7 heads of state, including President Donald Trump, who was joined by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Amodei told the group that areas of international cooperation should include structured access to frontier AI models and trade in chips and critical components that excludes China, according to one of the sources. He also said countries should cooperate to address the risk of AI in cyber operations, bioterrorism, and intelligence, the source added.
