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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  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark; founder of the Alliance of Democracies

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  [I propose a D7 of democratic middle powers — Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the UK — including] a Democratic Technology Initiative to shape standards, align export controls and invest jointly in AI, quantum and space. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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  Jayant Sinha

  Former Indian Minister of State for Finance and Civil Aviation; President of the Everstone Group; Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics

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  Paradoxically, no economy can build the architecture of AI sovereignty alone. Coalitions of countries must work together to regulate the sector, design and operate the rails, open the model layer, and universalize the agent interface, thereby embeddi... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Lindley Lentati

  Founder 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 policy

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  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models are controlled by US companies, leaving every other allied nation dependent on access that can be restricted or withdrawn.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 AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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  Narendra Modi

  Prime Minister of India

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  India believes AI will benefit the world only when it is shared. [...] Let us resolve to develop AI as a Global Common Good. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Alex Pentland

  MIT professor and Stanford HAI (Digital Economy Lab) Center Fellow; pioneer of computational social science

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  What's emerging is not simply a new set of trade agreements, but a new operating model for sovereignty: shared digital infrastructure, interoperable standards, and AI systems tuned to local markets. The countries that do best won't be those that wait... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Yann LeCun

  Computer scientist, AI researcher

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  There is a huge demand from the industry and governments for a credible frontier AI company that is neither Chinese nor American. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Gordon LaForge

  Senior Policy Analyst at New America; co-Director of People, State and Planet initiative; researcher on AI geopolitics and democracy

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  For middle powers, the logic of banding together is undeniably compelling at a time of escalating great power coercion. [...] It would be a distributed or collaborative sovereignty in which AI infrastructure, capabilities, and governance decisionmaki... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Anthony Albanese

  31st Prime Minister of Australia (Labor); MP for Grayndler

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  We're developing sovereign AI capabilities so we're not caught between the hyperscalers and the hegemons. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Karianne Oldernes Tung

  Norwegian Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance

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  Norway wants to work more closely with trusted allies such as Canada to ensure we have robust options in the areas of artificial intelligence, large language models, and digital tools tailored to our needs. AI 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 AI Verified 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 AI Verified 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 AI Verified 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. AI Verified 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. AI Verified 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 AI Verified 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 AI Verified 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 AI Verified 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 AI Verified source (2026)

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  Sriram Krishnan

  Senior White House Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence; former a16z general partner; former product leader at Microsoft, Meta, Twitter, and Snap

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  We want to make sure that the world uses the American AI stack. [...] We also want the world to use our AI model. We want all our allies, including India, to leverage our AI infrastructure. Unverified source (2026)

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  Christine Lagarde

  President of the European Central Bank

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  If history is any guide, the larger economic prize may lie not in producing these tools, but in applying them across the wider economy. [...] Europe is not leading the way in developing frontier AI models, but providers of digital services in Europe ... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Broderick McDonald

  Research Fellow at King's College London (XCEPT) and Oxford Emerging Threats Group; Visiting Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute; AI security researcher

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  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. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Vivian Balakrishnan

  Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs (since 2015); former ophthalmologist; PAP Member of Parliament; previously Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation Initiative

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  For South Korea and Singapore, our advantage does not necessarily lie in building the largest or the latest frontier large language models (LLMs), but in the deployment and adoption of AI extensively, responsibly, effectively and across the entire so... more AI Verified 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 AI Verified source (2026)

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