We can't find the internet
Attempting to reconnect
Something went wrong!
Hang in there while we get back on track
Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally
policy
world
ai
democracy
international-relations
public-interest-ai
research-policy
ai-governance
ai-regulation
ai-ethics
open-source
Cast your vote:
Results (7 votes):
Total
(7 votes)
For 5 (71%)
Abstain 0 (0%)
Against 2 (29%)
For (3)
-
Lindley LentatiFounder of Tertium AI (non-profit building frontier AI for democratic middle powers); co-founder and Director of Cambridge Inference; DIRDI Fellow on UK sovereign AI policyvotes For and says:
The strongest closed-source models are controlled by US companies, leaving every other allied nation dependent on access that can be restricted or withdrawn. Tertium AI is the response: an independent non-profit to build frontier-class open-weight AI...
more Unverifiable source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Emmanuel MacronPresident of Francevotes For and says:
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 Disputed source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Evan SolomonCanada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation; Liberal MP for Toronto Centrevotes For and says:
We want to make sure that governments and companies have an option between the hyperscalers and the hegemon.
Unverifiable source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
Abstain (0)
Against (2)
-
Broderick McDonaldResearch Fellow at King's College London (XCEPT) and Oxford Emerging Threats Group; Visiting Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute; AI security researchervotes Against and says:
Middle powers like the UK and Canada will not win the race for ever larger AI models, but through collaboration they can win the deployment race.
Disputed source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Anton LeichtVisiting scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; researcher on the political economy of AIvotes Against and says:
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 Disputed source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.