Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spent Wednesday afternoon in a closed-door G7 working lunch in Évian-les-Bains asking President Trump to lead an international AI coalition. Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman were also in the room, along with about a dozen tech executives and the heads of state of the world’s wealthiest democracies. OpenAI’s global affairs chief Chris Lehane, who also 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. According to two sources familiar with the discussions, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney specifically agreed.
Six days ago, the Trump administration directed Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over national-security concerns. Anthropic is still in active negotiations to reverse that order. Interestingly, Amodei flew to France and asked President Trump to formalize the very authority that had just been used to deactivate his flagship product.
CNBC reported that Amodei’s proposal included structured access to frontier models, plus trade of chips and critical components that excludes China, plus cooperation on cyber, bioterrorism, and intelligence risks. The chip idea has been a U.S. policy priority for three years running; Amodei just offered to put an AI-safety frame on it.
Sam Altman, on the record via OpenAI’s own briefing, asked for “an international forum” to establish “globally accepted standards for testing” of AI. The body that writes and certifies those tests will accumulate extraordinary market power. The CEOs and the politicians at the G7 lunch have begun negotiating the terms of that shared control.
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