'A signal of where power sits': Trump and world leaders joined by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google at G7

Source: CNBC

Chiefs of the world’s leading AI companies are descending on the G7 conference in France Wednesday, in a sign of their growing geopolitical influence as artificial intelligence rises to the top of the global agenda.

CEOs including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, alongside around a dozen other tech leaders, will take part in a lunch meeting at the summit in Evian on Wednesday.

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“It just shows that in order to make credible commitments on AI, heads of state now need the cooperation, if not endorsement, of a handful of private sector executives actually building the technology,” Jessica Brandt, senior fellow for technology and national security at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), told CNBC.

“We’re seeing a shift in who gets a seat at the table and a signal of where power sits.”

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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/17/g7-trump-ai-tech-leaders-openai-anthropic-google.html

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The article also quotes Emerson Brooking, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Institute, saying, "The frontier labs want to shape this debate before any binding rules exist."

The genAI tech lords should have been reined in long before this. It was stupid and reckless for governments to ever allow them to market anything called artificial intelligence that might hallucinate at any time, and that was trained on stolen intellectual property. And other problems with genAI have been obvious for years.

OpenAI's Sam Altman is a weasel, but he pulled off one of the greatest con jobs in history a few years ago, releasing ChatGPT so it could be used as a free cheating tool by students (the market least likely to notice all the genAI mistakes) and persuading many in politics and the media to treat him as the prophet/representative of an inevitable new world order.