The United States has called on the Group of 20 to adopt the "Carolina Principles," a framework that would keep new artificial intelligence regulation to a minimum.
Washington planned to present the proposal on the 1st at a G20 innovation ministers' meeting in North Carolina, Reuters reported.
According to a copy of a speech by Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, obtained by Reuters, the Carolina Principles center on introducing new rules only for "genuinely novel problems" that cannot be addressed under existing laws and regulations.
In the speech, Kratsios was expected to stress that policymakers do not need to take a piecemeal approach to each new technology and should not treat every emerging technology as an unprecedented policy challenge. The United States prefers to use existing sector-by-sector regulatory frameworks rather than create a separate oversight body for AI, and to have governments and companies work together to review the safety of the technology.
The proposal is seen as a move by the United States to defend its lead in the AI industry as Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek and Moonshot AI advance rapidly. The U.S. government is also closely watching the possibility that some Chinese AI models could develop into national security threats.
