Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, U.S. President Donald Trump and other government heads met Wednesday with the likes of OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and Cohere’s Aidan Gomez. “There was a consensus around figuring out a way to align standards between the democracies,” said Gomez, citing issues like use of the technology for economic gains, child safety and cyber threats. He was speaking at the VivaTech summit Thursday. (The Logic)

Talking point: According to OpenAI chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane, Altman proposed establishing a forum or organization where countries could come together to set these standards. Lehane said Carney, a former governor of the Banks of Canada and England, compared it to the Financial Stability Board, set up to help monetary policy authorities avoid a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. Amodei and Hassabis reportedly called for the U.S. to head up any such international effort, and the Canadian prime minister reportedly said Washington could take the lead. The U.S. is out in front of the AI race, acknowledged Gomez, who sat beside Carney at the meeting. But “we need to ensure that a democracy occupies the number two position, and that’s not true today.”