World leaders want American AI but not U.S. shutdown control

At the G7 summit, leaders including Emmanuel Macron and Narendra Modi warned that the U.S. could cut off access to leading American AI models at any time. Macron told fellow leaders and AI executives — among them Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — that if the U.S.

“from one day to the next can turn off the switch,” it would harm European customers’ economies and damage the firms themselves. The concern followed the Trump administration’s decision to block Anthropic from exporting its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models on national security grounds after Amazon raised alarms that certain safety guardrails could be bypassed.

Cybersecurity experts say the capabilities cited by the government also exist in models that remain available, including from OpenAI, yet Anthropic’s models remain frozen, highlighting the risk that access built on U.S. infrastructure can be revoked overnight. India’s prime minister voiced similar worries, saying democratic nations need unfettered access to top models to protect critical infrastructure.

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