Anthropic CEO Tells G7 Leaders to Resist the Temptation of AI Fragmentation

[Financial News]  


Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, urged Group of Seven (G7) leaders on the 17th local time to "resist the temptation of fragmentation" when it comes to the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI).
The Financial Times (FT), citing sources, reported that Amodei made the appeal during a luncheon with attendees at the G7 summit, including U.S. President Donald Trump. It added that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, who was also present, backed his remarks.
Amodei said he understood efforts by countries to prevent AI from falling into the hands of hostile actors, but stressed that democratic nations should stand together rather than split apart. Altman, whose company is Anthropic's biggest rival, also emphasized that all countries at the luncheon should share cyber defense technologies.
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, also attended the event and supported the arguments made by Amodei and Altman.
According to FT, the three CEOs warned that the democratic bloc could face a range of problems, including biological terrorism and cybersecurity threats, if it failed to cooperate under U.S. leadership on AI model development.
Earlier, the U.S. administration last week ordered foreign access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, the most powerful AI models currently available, to be blocked on national security grounds.
The move rattled not only U.S. allies but also Silicon Valley.
There were concerns that even friendly countries could fall behind in the competition if they were denied access to the latest AI models, while Silicon Valley worried about a shrinking market.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who has championed European technological independence, said the Anthropic dispute exposed the stark interests at play between the United States and its G7 allies. He warned that if the U.S. could "turn off the switch overnight," it would also hurt American companies worth trillions of dollars that are leading the AI arms race.
Macron added that Trump and other G7 leaders discussed the issue and made progress, but said no final decision had been made on whether the latest models would be included. He called for stronger regulation of AI and warned about the risks posed by a lack of cooperation among democratic nations.
He said the issue would be discussed by many democratic countries over the coming months.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also reportedly expressed concern over the Trump administration's decision to block access to Anthropic's top-tier AI models.

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