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Seventh Edition: December 4th, 2025

Facing the stakes of AI together: from shared concerns to joint action.
As powerful AI reshapes our world and global coordination comes under strain, the Seventh Edition of The Athens Roundtable will convene global leaders on December 4, 2025 in London to address urgent AI governance challenges: directly, honestly, and decisively.

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"Three points should anchor the discussion around AI and the rule of law: the values of free and open societies, dynamic and flexible legal and regulatory frameworks and cross-Atlantic consensus."

Carl Bildt

Former Prime Minister and former Foreign Minister of Sweden

"The discussions we have today about how to regulate AI, will reverberate for generations to come. We are settings the rules for a technology, which has the potential to transform our society even more profoundly than the internet."

Representative Yvette D. Clarke

U.S. House of Representatives, Vice Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee

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A forum for international dialogue and collective action on artificial intelligenceand the rule of law

Seventh Edition: December 4th, 2025

5,500+ Participants

180+ Speakers

40+ Partners and Contributors

Past Partners and Contributors of The Athens Roundtable

A forum for international dialogue
and collective action on artificial intelligence
and the rule of law

Past Partners and Contributors
of The Athens Roundtable