PARIS: Industry, technology and digital ministers from the Group of Seven major industrial nations on Friday called for the promotion of the G-7’s Hiroshima AI Process, a framework aimed at creating international rules on generative artificial intelligence.

“We remain committed to advancing the Hiroshima AI Process outcomes,” the G-7 ministers said in a joint statement issued after a two-day meeting in Verona and Trento, Italy. The process was launched at last year’s G-7 summit in Japan.

The G-7 ministers agreed to set up a working group to discuss ways to secure supply chains for semiconductors that are crucial to economic security.

The ministers also agreed to promote the principles and the code of conduct for AI developers, while discussing ways to monitor their compliance.

They reaffirmed a policy of putting into operation Data Free Flow with Trust, a concept proposed by Japan for international transfers of data.

The G-7 nations will support emerging and developing economies amid concerns that the spread of AI will further widen the digital divides.

In the working group on semiconductors that support the digital economy, the G-7 will work with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and experts to address challenges such as strengthening supply chains and crisis response.

The G-7 ministers underlined the need to support the development of international networks that can safely exchange large amounts of data, such as undersea cables passing through the Arctic and the Pacific Ocean.

Last year, Japan and the European Union agreed to cooperate in building a submarine cable connecting Asia and Europe via the Arctic Ocean by bypassing Russia amid its war on Ukraine.

JIJI Press