G7 Leaders Warn U.S. Could 'Turn Off' Their AI
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- Emmanuel Macron told G7 leaders and top AI executives at a Wednesday lunch that if the U.S. can 'turn off the switch' on AI access overnight, it would harm both European economies and the AI firms themselves.
- The Trump administration blocked Anthropic from exporting its newest Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models on national security grounds, after Amazon flagged that certain safety guardrails could be bypassed.
- Cybersecurity experts noted that the capabilities cited by the government are also present in models that remain freely available, including from OpenAI — leaving Anthropic's models frozen while comparable rivals stay accessible.
- Narendra Modi raised concerns about the Anthropic block, per the Financial Times, arguing democratic nations must have unfettered access to top AI models to protect critical infrastructure.
- Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez said the restriction confirms that dependence on 'a small handful of big tech companies' is 'dangerous to resilience' and called digital sovereignty essential to economic and national security.
- G7 leaders discussed creating a 'trusted partners' scheme to grant non-U.S. nations access to advanced AI from Anthropic and OpenAI, contingent on using the models to build stronger defenses against rivals like China — though it's unclear how far such a scheme would extend to startups in Paris or Bangalore.
Why it matters: The U.S. blocked Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 from export to allies on national security grounds, even though cybersecurity experts note similar capabilities remain freely available in OpenAI's models. Macron is now telling G7 leaders nobody will buy U.S. AI that can vanish overnight, putting Anthropic and OpenAI's foreign revenue and the U.S. lead in global AI deployment at direct risk.
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