G7 Leaders Statement on AI for Prosperity

The G7 leaders issued a Statement on AI for Prosperity on June 17, 2025, in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. The text, reproduced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada, says the group sees a human-centric approach to artificial intelligence as a route to greater prosperity and to solving pressing global challenges, and that the leaders want to spur secure, responsible and trustworthy AI while working with developing partners to narrow digital divides.

The statement highlights several pressures and opportunities. It refers to AI in public services, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), labour markets, cultural and creative sectors, and cross-border data flows under Data Free Flow with Trust. It also notes that wider AI use will strain energy grids and affect energy security, resilience and affordability, even though AI can help energy innovation.

The leaders then make four commitments. First, they will speed AI adoption in the public sector, with Canada launching a G7 GovAI Grand Challenge and Rapid Solution Labs, and a G7 AI Network (GAIN) building a roadmap and a catalogue of shareable open-source tools. Second, they launch a G7 AI Adoption Roadmap to support SMEs through sustained investment, a common adoption blueprint, talent exchanges and trust-building tools drawing on the Hiroshima AI Process, and they will prepare workers through a voluntary compendium of best practices and encourage girls into STEM. Third, they will cooperate on the energy challenges of AI and use AI for energy efficiency. Fourth, they will broaden partnerships so developing countries can access AI, including support for local innovation and the AI for Development Funders Collaborative.

Ministers are tasked with exploring strategic investment in public sector AI and with producing a workplan on AI and energy by year end.