The leaders of two of the world's most prominent artificial intelligence companies used this week's G7 Summit to argue that the United States should take the lead in writing the rules for AI.
According to CNBC, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis called for a U.S.-led coalition to shape AI rules and standards during a closed-door meeting at the summit on Wednesday. CNBC's Kai Nicol-Schwarz reported the comments, citing sources familiar with the gathering.
The meeting brought together tech leaders and heads of state to discuss AI standards, CNBC reported, with President Donald Trump among those who attended.
The sources did not detail exactly what such a coalition would do or which countries would join, and the meeting itself was held behind closed doors. What is clear from the reporting is the central pitch: that the people building frontier AI systems want the standards governing those systems to be steered by Washington rather than left to a patchwork of national approaches or set primarily by rivals.
That framing is notable because Amodei and Hassabis run competing labs, yet here they aligned on the question of who should hold the pen on global AI policy. Their appeal landed in front of the leaders of the world's major democratic economies and the U.S. president, the people with the power to actually act on it.
Why it matters: the rules that emerge from moments like this will help decide how powerful AI tools are built, sold, and policed worldwide — and these two executives are pushing to keep that authority centered on the United States.