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Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.

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The chief executives of the three most powerful artificial intelligence companies on Earth are about to sit in the same room as the leaders of the world’s seven largest advanced economies. OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis are all slated to attend the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, which runs from 15 to 17 June, according to Bloomberg.

Their names appeared on a guest list released by the French presidential office. All three companies confirmed attendance, though none offered specifics on what they plan to discuss.

What the summit is about

An OpenAI spokesperson said the company expects to discuss the opportunities and threats posed by advanced AI, but declined to go further. Anthropic and Google similarly confirmed their executives would attend without elaborating on their agendas.

France, which holds the rotating G7 presidency this year, has placed AI prominently on the summit’s agenda. ...

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