Credits: APUS President Donald Trump and top administration officials met with the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) executives at the G7 summit in France on Wednesday (June 17) to discuss a US-led effort to coordinate global AI standards. The “working lunch” on AI and the digital age brought together world leaders even as US looks make policy decisions that dictate who around the world is allowed to access American AI software.Trump was joined at the table by senior members of his cabinet, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The meeting also featured a gathering of fierce Silicon Valley rivals. According to a report by Axios, the key participants included:Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI)Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic)Demis Hassabis (CEO, Google DeepMind)Marc Benioff (CEO, Salesforce)Alexandr Wang (Representing Meta)Arthur Mensch (CEO, France-based Mistral AI)Aidan Gomez (CEO, Canada-based Cohere)What tech leaders said after meeting Donald TrumpFollowing the meeting, OpenAI’s head of global affairs, Chris Lehane, told reporters that the room actively agreed to the idea of creating a unified global forum for democratic countries and AI labs to build shared safety standards. Lehane made it clear that the US intends to lead the way.“The ability to generate or create standards would be an avenue or pathway helping to ensure ongoing and continued access to the frontier models,” Lehane explained, adding that the group also spent time discussing the protection of children online and finding ways to keep AI technology accessible globally.Trump: ‘It’s going to be the biggest thing ever’Speaking at a press conference after the event, President Trump praised the “excellent” meeting but struck a notably cautious tone on the power of AI technology.“What's going on with that? It's going to be the biggest thing ever. We have to be very careful with it. It's both great and could be bad. We have to be careful with it, but we're leading China. We're leading the world on that,” Trump said.The meeting comes on the heels of a newly signed US executive order on AI that introduces voluntary safety testing for the biggest AI laboratories.