Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  Imagine that you had a coalition of countries which together decide to develop AI safely and for the benefit of humanity and not to dominate each other. That will be a much better and safer world, because you break this competition problem that we ar... more Verified source (2026)

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  Liz Kendall

  UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology; Labour MP for Leicester West

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  By working more closely with our international partners, particularly other so-called middle power nations, including on setting the standards for how AI is deployed. Everyone needs confidence in how AI tools will be used, wherever they are in the wo... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Emmanuel Macron

  President of France

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  The future of AI will be built by those who combine innovation and responsibility, technology with humanity, and India and France will help to shape this future together. [...] After the Action Summit one year ago, we continued the conversation to en... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Karsten Wildberger

  Germany's Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization; former CEO of Ceconomy

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  Today's Joint Declaration of intent moves the German-Canadian Digital Alliance from vision to implementation. Germany and Canada are united in our belief that responsible AI development and resilient digital ecosystems are critical to long-term econo... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Mélanie Joly

  Canada's Minister of Industry; Liberal MP; former Minister of Foreign Affairs

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  We need to be able to, concretely speaking, create this trading bloc, to have businesses working together, to anchor clear national champions that will then have an impact on the supply chain. Unverified source (2026)

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  Evan Solomon

  Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation; Liberal MP for Toronto Centre

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  We want to make sure that governments and companies have an option between the hyperscalers and the hegemon. Unverified source (2026)

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  Aidan Gomez

  Co-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of "Attention Is All You Need" Transformer paper

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  Combining the strengths of Cohere and Aleph Alpha accelerates our global expansion and advances our mission to deliver sovereign AI to nations around the world. Organizations globally are demanding uncompromising control over their AI stack. This tra... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Giorgos Verdi

  Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR); researcher on EU tech sovereignty, AI, and economic security

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  AI middle powers could pool the costs of frontier AI development and collaborate more closely to acquire homegrown capabilities. [...] Middle powers should collaborate to pursue alternative pathways toward frontier AI development, for example via joi... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Mark Carney

  Prime Minister of Canada; former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada

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  And on AI, we're cooperating with like-minded democracies to ensure that we won't ultimately be forced to choose between hegemons and hyper-scalers. This is not naive multilateralism, nor is it relying on their institutions. It's building coalitions ... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Mark Brakel

  Policy director, Future of Life Institute

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  I think it would be good for the Indian government to do this in partnership with other middle powers. Because I think India alone can't compete with the billions that the corporations in the US and in China are investing. [...] This is where the Ind... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Anton Leicht

  Visiting scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; researcher on the political economy of AI

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  Middle powers share a structural condition: none of them will build frontier AI, all of them must import it, and each of them possesses enough institutional or industrial substance that the choices they make will genuinely matter far beyond their bor... more Unverified source (2026)

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