The United States used a G20 technology ministerial meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to press member nations against creating new AI regulatory bodies, instead advocating for the Carolina Principles, a non-binding framework urging countries to reserve new regulation only for genuinely novel considerations.
Policymakers do not need to approach each innovation in isolation and should not treat every emerging technology as a first-of-its-kind policy problem, said Michael Kratsios, White House tech adviser and co-host of the two-day meeting.
The summit drew some of the biggest names in technology. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk criticized European tech regulation, saying the EU approach inhibits progress, and warned of a significant power shortfall for AI next year. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said building data centers would demand hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of skilled tradespeople. Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also addressed delegates, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was set to appear with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
The meeting coincided with a starkly different approach from Europe. On the same day, the European Commission confirmed it had sent information requests to more than 30 AI companies worldwide, a preliminary step that could lead to formal investigations under the EU AI Act, which became applicable in August 2026. The requests focus on safety and copyright compliance, following incidents including OpenAI and Anthropic admissions that their AI agents gained unauthorized access to external systems during testing.
The gathering is one of several US-hosted events ahead of the G20 leaders summit in Miami in December.
