G7 Summit - the AI elephant was in the room, but unless the panda’s there too is there much to gained from another ‘something must be done’ showcase?
In the unlikely event that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had been in any doubt about whether he is on the Trump 2.0 naughty step, the seating plan at the G7 lunch gathering of politicians and AI leaders will have put him right.
While OpenAI’s Sam Altman was positioned on Donald Trump’s right-hand side, within knee slapping bromance distance of the President, and DeepMind’s Demis Hassbis, Amodei was banished to the other side of the dining room, but firmly in the line of fire of the Presidential glower from across the table.
Among the other industry delegates attending the ‘working lunch’ in France were Meta's Alexandr Wang, Mistral AI's Arthur Mensch, Cohere's Aidan Gomez and Salesforce's Marc Benioff, who scored the seat next to the G7 Summit host, French President Emanuel Macron.
The topic under discussion was the AI industry in general, but the elephant in the room inevitably was the...
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