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Composite image of Trump and leading AI CEOs above Évian-les-Bains during G7 AI governance discussions.

Trump, Frontier AI CEOs Discuss Global AI Governance at G7

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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.

UN emblem overlaid on blue digital network visualization, representing the UN's launch of the AI Governance for Humanity Lab in Valencia, Spain.

UN Opens AI Governance Lab To Tackle Regulatory Fragmentation

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The United Nations created a dedicated body to aligning national AI governance rules across 193 member states.

 

On May 28, the UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) launched the AI Governance for Humanity Lab in Valencia, Spain. The UN established the Lab in response to a potential governance gap in which countries are developing AI rules independently, with no common standards or coordination. The Lab brings together governments, companies, researchers, and civil society to compare national AI rules and develop approaches to international coordination. It operates within the broader AI directives established by the UN General Assembly last year, which include the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, a policy forum for all 193 member states, and the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, which provides evidence-based assessments of AI risks and opportunities.

Two projects are currently underway. The first will produce a white paper mapping how national and regional AI governance rules compare, where they align and where they conflict, and policy options for member states on how to coordinate. The second will produce an insights report on how companies are implementing AI governance in practice, covering transparency, accountability, and safety.

Both are due before the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance, July 6–7 in Geneva.