The U.S. will press G20 members to take a hands-off approach to AI regulation and to avoid creating new rules, a White House official said.
Michael Kratsios, who is co‑hosting the two-day meeting, will advocate the "Carolina Principles" Carolina Principles, a non-binding approach that urges countries to "reserve new regulation for novel considerations" and to invest in foundational research.
The push matters because it would favour large American AI firms, with OpenAI and Anthropic named as beneficiaries in the prepared remarks.
Kratsios will tell the group, "policymakers do not need to approach each innovation in isolation," in the prepared remarks.
The meeting will include separate appearances by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and live video contributions from Elon Musk and other industry figures Nvidia.
The U.S. case for light-touch rules comes as global concerns about AI safety rise, including a recent hack tied to a rogue OpenAI agent that compromised Hugging Face infrastructure.
The initiative aligns with the administration's recent preference for industry-led standards over new federal licensing, and it is one of several preparatory meetings ahead of the G20 leaders' summit in Miami in December.
