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G7 Leaders' Statement on AI for Prosperity

Record G7-05

Issued by
G7 Leaders (Canadian G7 Presidency), Kananaskis Summit
Jurisdiction
G7
Level · region
International · Global
Published / adopted
2025-06-17
Language
English

Summary

G7 Leaders' statement committing to drive innovation and adoption of 'secure, responsible, and trustworthy AI' that benefits people, mitigates negative externalities and promotes national security. It covers public-sector AI adoption that respects human rights and privacy and promotes transparency, fairness and accountability (a G7 GovAI Grand Challenge and a G7 AI Network), the 2024 G7 action plan on safe, secure and trustworthy AI in the world of work, a workplan on AI and energy, and partnerships with developing countries. An annexed G7 AI Adoption Roadmap for SMEs includes trust-building tools based on the Hiroshima AI Process and its OECD-run reporting framework.

Safety topics

public-sector useinternational cooperationaccountability & liability

Scope

Borderline scope Adoption and prosperity statement; safety appears as secure, responsible and trustworthy AI and risk governance in public-sector use. Included under the inclusive rule.

Status notes

Issued on 17 June 2025 at the Kananaskis summit, Alberta, under the Canadian G7 Presidency. The statement tasks ministers with a workplan on AI and energy before the end of 2025; the annexed G7 AI Adoption Roadmap commits to an AI Adoption Blueprint prepared with the OECD, a toolkit for AI deployers and raising awareness of the HAIP Code of Conduct Reporting Framework. The G7 Industry, Digital and Technology Ministerial Declaration of 9 December 2025 (Montréal) reports on delivering the Roadmap, including the SME AI Adoption Blueprint launched by the Canadian Presidency, the Toolkit for SMEs Deploying Artificial Intelligence and the G7 AI Network of public-sector AI leaders, and the ministers' statement on the Blueprint of the same date responds to this statement. The French presidency continued the work in the May 2026 ministerial declaration (G7-04).

Sources

Open the official source https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2025/06/17/leaders-statement-ai-prosperity

Secondary source: https://www.g7.utoronto.ca/summit/2025kananaskis/250617-ai.html

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 13:38:19 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/G7-05/2026-10-11/official.html
Retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:46 UTC
SHA-256 3eefb3c29fb1cebbce267a54cb6e0923850de4c21892cd6df180a4b5b80afdfc
Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/G7-05/2026-10-11/secondary.html
Retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:49 UTC
SHA-256 6183b7f3bacde0dd5ac1a0d7fa3d058ef7cb7ea1526c62eb3d420ba875cf99be

Verification

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The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-17 · official-url-fetched
Stored and read in this run: the statement on the Prime Minister of Canada's website (pm.gc.ca, official), which confirms the title, 17 June 2025, Kananaskis, the commitments and the annexed AI Adoption Roadmap; the G7 Research Group's reprint (g7.utoronto.ca, not an official host), which carries the same text; and, from MIC Japan's HAIP site (soumu.go.jp), the G7 2025 Industry, Digital and Technology Ministerial Declaration and the Ministerial Statement on the SME AI Adoption Blueprint (both Montréal, 9 Dec 2025), which confirm the follow-up given in notes. The earlier sentences on a Kananaskis quantum statement and a Research 7+ meeting, and the remark that the summit had no final communiqué, rested on unstored secondary pages and were removed.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 5 field(s) supported, fixes applied to scope_note.

History

  1. 2026-10-17scope_note: – → Adoption and prosperity statement; safety appears as secure, responsible and tru — pipeline run 2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 (recheck), candidate G7-052026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-17notes: Dated 17 June 2025, Kananaskis, Alberta. Safety and risk content is light: the o → Issued on 17 June 2025 at the Kananaskis summit, Alberta, under the Canadian G7 — the AI Adoption Blueprint and the AI-energy workplan attributed correctly (the Blueprint is in the annex, the energy workplan in the statement); the December 2025 ministerial follow-up added; the quantum and Research 7+ sentences and the evaluative sentence on safety content removed2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-17summary: Leaders' statement adopted at Kananaskis on 17 June 2025, one of the few consens → G7 Leaders' statement committing to drive innovation and adoption of 'secure, re — 'one of the few consensus texts of a summit without a final communiqué' removed (no stored source); 'There is no frontier-risk section' removed (an evaluation); the GovAI Grand Challenge and the G7 AI Network added2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

G7 Leaders (Canadian G7 Presidency), Kananaskis Summit. G7 Leaders' Statement on AI for Prosperity. 2025-06-17. https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2025/06/17/leaders-statement-ai-prosperity. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/G7-05/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:46 UTC, SHA-256 3eefb3c29fb1cebbce267a54cb6e0923850de4c21892cd6df180a4b5b80afdfc. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record G7-05.

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