Leaders Discuss Global AI Rules with Tech CEOs at G7 Summit World leaders used a G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains this week to push for coordinated global rules on artificial intelligence, even as U.S. export controls and model access restrictions exposed deep tensions over who will set those standards.

In the days leading up to Wednesday’s working lunch, European leaders were still reacting to Washington’s decision to suspend EU access to Anthropic’s most advanced models, a move that “triggered renewed calls for Europe to become less reliant on US artificial intelligence.” EU officials nonetheless signaled they wanted to turn the dispute into “a launchpad for collaboration rather than a spat that drives the continents apart.”

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump sat down with fellow G7 leaders and the CEOs of leading AI firms — including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis — for a two‑and‑a‑half‑hour lunch on “AI and the digital age” focused on economic growth and societal resilience. Afterward, OpenAI global affairs chief Chris Lehane said there was “a coalescing” around creating “a forum or a space for the different democratic countries to be able to work together” on AI safety standards, with the U.S. in the lead.

Behind closed doors, Amodei and Hassabis went further, calling for “a US-led coalition that would shape international rules and standards for artificial intelligence,” with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreeing the U.S. could lead such a bloc. According to one account, Amodei urged structured international access to “frontier AI models” and cooperation on chip trade that “excludes China,” along with joint work on cyber, bioterrorism and intelligence risks.

Altman, for his part, proposed “an international forum for discussion that establishes globally accepted standards for testing, provides expert and impartial analysis of capabilities and risks, and serves as a venue for cooperation among nations.” Trump later hailed an “excellent” AI meeting and said the U.S. was “leading the world” while insisting “we have to be very careful with it.”

Outside the room, industry figures framed the gathering as the start of a broader push. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff described G7 conversations on “trusted AI platforms,” while Hugging Face’s Clement Delangue amplified warnings about not letting “a few models” capture all the value in AI. Yet despite this flurry of proposals, the meeting produced “no binding commitments,” underscoring how hard it will be to turn aspirational coalitions into enforceable global AI governance.

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