The U.S. pressed G20 members on Tuesday to take a hands-off approach to AI regulation and avoid creating rules for the technology at a gathering of industry titans and commerce ministers in North Carolina.
Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown is slated to address the group on Wednesday, a company spokesperson said. Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk addressed the gathering by video on Tuesday. U.S. tech adviser Michael Kratsios, who is co-hosting the two-day meeting, advocated for countries to adopt the “Carolina Principles. Open-weight AI models are systems with publicly accessible core elements. Zuckerberg has tried in recent weeks to position his company as a leader in open-weight models, and restrictions could dampen his ambitions. A United Nations panel recently warned that AI’s developments are outpacing scientific understanding and government policy. Recent events, including a hack triggered by a rogue OpenAI agent that compromised the infrastructure of AI company Hugging Face, added to concerns about how closely leading AI companies are monitoring tests of their products. AI agents are programs that run with minimal human supervision.
Countries that signed on agreed to avoid writing entirely new regulations for AI, and instead focus on writing rules for “novel” situations involving the technology, he told the G20 officials in a speech on Tuesday morning. Zuckerberg said countries should not restrict open-weight AI models.
Reuters previously reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will separately appear before the delegates with Howard Lutnick, the U.S. commerce secretary, on Wednesday. Chinese open-weight AI models are becoming increasingly capable when compared to proprietary systems from American AI giants such as Anthropic and OpenAI. Chinese-made open-weight models are gaining ground with U.S. companies, also posing a potential security risk if the country’s leaders decide to interfere.
