G7 Ministerial Declaration on Digital & Technology

Summary

Ministers make secure AI the first of four priorities, recognising risks from design flaws, cybersecurity vulnerabilities and misuse by malicious actors, including in cyber activities and chemical, biological and radiological capabilities. They commend the revised HAIP Reporting Framework, welcome the HAIP Friends Group's March 2026 action plan, and plan discussions with members of the International Network for Advanced AI Measurement, Evaluation and Science and the OECD on comparing AI risk-assessment frameworks. The declaration also covers synthetic-content detection and risks to minors from generative AI and chatbots, including AI-generated child sexual abuse material and deepfakes.

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Status notes

Adopted at the meeting of G7 Digital and Technology Ministers in Paris on 29 May 2026 under the French G7 Presidency; the text itself gives the date as 'May 29' without the year. The meeting also adopted a G7 Vision on AI openness opportunities and shared language and a G7 Common Set of Principles defining a safer and more secure digital space for minors, which the G7 Leaders welcomed at Evian in June 2026 (G7-06). The declaration also encourages AI procurement guidelines for the public sector, plans continued expert discussions on synthetic-content detection that may contribute to the French Presidency's open-source Meta-detector, and notes a French-presidency policy paper on agentic AI led by Inria.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.soumu.go.jp/hiroshimaaiprocess/pdf/document12_en.pdf

Secondary source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/g7-digital-and-technology-ministerial-declaration-29-may-2026/g7-digital-and-technology-ministerial-declaration-29-may-2026

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1. 2026-10-17notes: Adopted in Paris on 29 May under the French G7 Presidency. The text does not pri → Adopted at the meeting of G7 Digital and Technology Ministers in Paris on 29 May — the process sentences ('was not checked', the OECD press release) removed; the meeting's two companion documents and the Leaders' welcome of the minors principles added; the agentic-AI policy paper added2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17related: [{"slug": "haip-reporting-framework", "id": "OECD-02"}, {"slug": "international- → [{"id": "OECD-02", "slug": "haip-reporting-framework"}, {"id": "INT-11", "slug": — INT-20 (HAIP Friends Group Action Plan 2026), named in the declaration as the action plan announced in March 20262026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-17safety_topics: ["general-purpose / frontier AI", "catastrophic risk", "evaluation & testing", " → ["general-purpose / frontier AI", "catastrophic risk", "evaluation & testing", " — seven values, above the limit of six; 'public-sector use' dropped (one sentence on procurement guidelines)2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-17summary: Ministers make 'secure AI' a priority, naming risks from design flaws, cybersecu → Ministers make secure AI the first of four priorities, recognising risks from de — 'France will work with' the Network and the OECD restated as the text has it (discussions under France's presidency including members of the Network and the OECD); misuse 'in malicious cyber activities' added; 'welcome' the revised Reporting Framework corrected to 'commend'2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-17secondary_url: https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2026/05/oecd-launches-streamli → https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/g7-digital-and-technology-ministerial — the UK government's publication of the declaration (DSIT, gov.uk), with the full text and the date 29 May 2026 in its title; the OECD press release refuses the archiver2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

HAIP Reporting Framework OECD / G7 · Published (non-binding, current)

International Network of AI Safety Institutes International Network of AI Safety Institutes · Published (non-binding, current)

HAIP Comprehensive Policy Framework G7 · Published (non-binding, current)

G7 Leaders' Statement on AI for Prosperity (Kananaskis, 2025) G7 · Published (non-binding, current)

G7 Leaders' Call on a Safer Digital Space for Minors (Evian, 2026) G7 · Published (non-binding, current)

HAIP Friends Group Action Plan 2026 Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

G7 Digital and Technology Ministers (French G7 Presidency). G7 Ministerial Declaration on Digital & Technology. 2026-05-29. https://www.soumu.go.jp/hiroshimaaiprocess/pdf/document12_en.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/G7-04/2026-10-17/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-17 14:28:25 UTC, SHA-256 101316653594a6c0711dca2672308f63f808b6699f9a2c0b67f9441f831488b3. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record G7-04.

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