The United States will ask the G20 not to build any new institutions for governing artificial intelligence. A White House official set out the position before a two-day meeting that opened in North Carolina on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
The argument is procedural rather than substantive, which is what makes it effective. Washington is not proposing rules it prefers; it is pressing member countries not to establish bodies that could write rules at all.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and White House technology adviser Michael Kratsios are hosting.
The session is the first in a series running to the G20 leaders’ summit in Miami in December, which means the position set out this week is the one other countries will spend three months negotiating against.
The guest list tells you how the administration sees the subject. Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are attending in person and Elon Musk by video, which is an unusual composition for an intergovernmental meeting.
