The G7 AI lunch showed that frontier AI leaders have become part of the room where geopolitical choices are made.
The meeting put Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Arthur Mensch, Aidan Gomez, Uljan Sharka, Victor Riparbelli, Robin Rombach, Alex Wang, Marc Benioff, and leaders from Sarvam and Sakana into the same room as national leaders.
Sam Altman, who sat between President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, was the first CEO to speak at the hours-long lunch.
The power shift is clear: governments can pass laws, but only a few private labs can build the models, test their dangerous abilities, restrict access, or provide the infrastructure needed to run them.
In G7, the immediate fight is over frontier AI access, because Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 triggered U.S. export controls after officials worried advanced models could help find software weaknesses at scale.
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