AI Leaders Urge U.S.-Led Coalition for Global AI Standards at G7

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis called for a U.S.-led coalition to shape rules and standards around artificial intelligence at a meeting with tech leaders and heads of state, including President Donald Trump, CNBC has learned.

The closed-door lunch meeting took place on Wednesday at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France. Amodei and Hassabis both proposed international cooperation on AI, with the U.S. taking the lead, to protect against risks associated with the emerging technology, according to two people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be named because they weren't authorized to discuss the meeting.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed that the U.S. could lead an AI coalition, according to one of the people and another person familiar with the discussions.

Anthropic declined to comment on the G7 meeting. Google DeepMind and the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

The gathering follows the release of increasingly powerful AI models with cyber capabilities so advanced that some industry experts have raised concerns that they can cause major disasters if left in the wrong hands. Most recently, Anthropic disabled access to its newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, on Friday after the U.S. government imposed export controls on the models, citing national security concerns.

In addition to Amodei and Hassabis, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attended Wednesday's meeting, which included about a dozen tech executives. Leaders of G7 countries were also involved.

Alongside President Trump, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik and Secretary of State Marco Rubio represented the U.S.

Amodei said in his address to the group that areas of international cooperation should include structured access to frontier models, and trade of chips and critical components that excludes China, one source said. Amodei also said that countries should cooperate to address the risk of AI in cyber, bioterrorism and areas of intelligence, the source added.

Anthropic remains locked in negotiations with the Trump administration after the export controls on its latest models went into effect late Friday.

Altman, in his comments, called for "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," according to a briefing from OpenAI.

Last month, OpenAI announced that GPT-5.5 Cyber, a variation of its latest model, was rolling out in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams.

OpenA's global affairs chief Chris Lehane, who attended Wednesday's meeting, said non-U.S. leaders in the room acknowledged that the U.S. "certainly could play the lead role in working to establish" standards around AI.