World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.
Key takeaways
- At the G7 Summit on Wednesday, World leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced concerns that the U.S.
- Macron warned G7 leaders and top AI executives — including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Open AI CEO Sam Altman, and President Donald Trump — over lunch that if the U.S.
- The episode has exposed a risk that many international companies have been grappling with: any company or government that builds on U.S.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
At the G7 Summit on Wednesday, World leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced concerns that the U.S. could cut off their countries’ access to top American AI models at any time.
Macron warned G7 leaders and top AI executives — including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Open AI CEO Sam Altman, and President Donald Trump — over lunch that if the U.S. “from one day to the next can turn off the switch,” it could not only harm the economies of European customers but also damage the AI firms themselves.
The comments come a few days after the Trump administration blocked Anthropic from exporting its newest Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models on national security grounds. The order came after Amazon flagged to the White House that certain safety guardrails could be bypassed. Even though cybersecurity experts have argued that the capabilities cited by the government are also present in models that remain freely available, including from OpenAI, Anthropic’s models are still on ice.