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Criticism: "It was a historic, even jarring, scene that captures a once-unimaginable geopolitical ordering. The world's most powerful heads of state gathered in the French Alps this week for the annual G7 summit, with the CEOs of America's dominant AI companies seated and treated like heads of nation-states themselves" (Allen, M., 2026, June 20).

Bio: Sam Altman, OpenAI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman ; Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis ; Dario Amodei, Anthropic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei ; Arthur Mensch, Mistral AI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Mensch ; Robin Rombach, Black Forest Labs https://www.linkedin.com/company/bflai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(text-to-image_model)#Black_Forest_Labs ; Victor Riparbelli https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorriparbelli/ Synthesia.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesia_(company) ; Uljan Sharka, https://www.linkedin.com/in/uljan/ Domyn https://www.linkedin.com/company/domynai ; Aidan Gomez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan_Gomez Cohere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohere ; Ren Ito, Sakana Ai https://www.linkedin.com/in/renitomail/ ; Vivek Raghavan, Sarvam Ai https://in.linkedin.com/in/vivek-raghavan-16005424 ; Marc Benioff, Salesforce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Benioff ; Alexandr Wang, Meta Platforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Wang

Bibliography: Allen, M. (2026, June 20). 'New global order: AI CEOs as heads of nation-states. Axios. https://www.axios.com/2026/06/20/ai-tech-moguls-g7