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Artificial intelligence and the summits
Artificial intelligence has moved from a side topic to a leaders' issue in just a few years. We follow how the G7, G20 and the international AI summits approach safety, standards, competitiveness and jobs.
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Why it matters
Artificial intelligence moved to the top of the summit agenda with the G7’s Hiroshima AI Process in 2023 and has stayed there. Leaders are weighing safety, innovation, compute and energy needs, and the effect of AI on jobs and the digital divide.
The G20, B20, W20 and APEC each approach AI from their own angle: growth and inclusion, business rules and digital trust, gender and access, and cross-border cooperation. For companies, the outcomes affect standards, data rules and the skills they will need.
On the summit agenda
The G7 Hiroshima AI Process
Launched under Japan's G7 presidency in 2023, the Hiroshima AI Process produced international guiding principles and a code of conduct for developers of advanced AI systems. The OECD now runs a reporting framework so companies can show how they apply them.
The international AI summits
A separate series of leader-level AI summits, from Bletchley Park in 2023 to Seoul, Paris and New Delhi, has shifted its focus from frontier-model safety toward adoption, investment and the benefits of AI. Its declarations increasingly feed into G7 and G20 discussions.
Standards and regulation
Approaches differ sharply. The European Union's AI Act is being phased in, while the United States has set out a national AI Action Plan centered on innovation and infrastructure. The G20 AI Principles, agreed in 2019, remain the broadest common ground among the major economies.
Compute, energy and jobs
AI depends on chips, data centers and a great deal of electricity; the International Energy Agency expects data-center power demand to roughly double by 2030. Leaders are also weighing AI's effect on productivity and the workforce, a theme that runs through both the G7 and G20 labor and digital tracks.
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