President Donald Trump met with leaders of the world’s most influential AI companies during a closed-door discussion that included international AI governance and coordination.
President Donald Trump met with leading AI executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, during a closed-door AI governance discussion at the G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, on June 17.
According to reporting from Axios, Reuters, and other media outlets, international AI governance and coordination were among the topics discussed during the session. Reuters reported that participants addressed AI governance, international cooperation, access to advanced AI models, and trusted AI partnerships.
Following the meeting, OpenAI Head of Global Affairs Chris Lehane said that governments and AI companies discussed the possibility of creating a forum for democratic countries to work together on AI safety standards.“There really is a coalescing” among countries and AI labs around the idea of establishing “a forum or a space for the different democratic countries to be able to work together to ultimately see if there’s a way to establish some type of AI safety standards,” Lehane told reporters, according to Axios.
Lehane said the United States would play a leading role in such an effort and argued that developing common standards could help preserve access to advanced AI systems. His comments echoed a similar OpenAI proposal published last month that called for a U.S.-led international AI oversight group that included China.
He also said participants discussed children’s online safety and ways to help ensure that AI technology remains broadly available worldwide.
Trump described the discussion as an “excellent” meeting during a press conference following the summit.
“It’s going to be the biggest thing ever,” Trump said. “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.”
No formal proposal, governance framework, treaty, or regulatory initiative emerged from the meeting.
