G-7 AI Chiefs Push Democratic Rules for Anthropic Models as U.S. Ban Hits 7 Allies
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Updated · The Washington Post · Jun 17
G-7 AI Chiefs Push Democratic Rules for Anthropic Models as U.S. Ban Hits 7 Allies
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Jun 17
Summary
At a G-7 lunch in France, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged democratic nations to coordinate access to powerful AI and share its benefits after Washington blocked foreign use of Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models.
Friday’s export controls bar all non-U.S. citizens — including Anthropic employees — from the models, forcing the company to shut access entirely and raising fears allies could lose critical technology without warning.
France’s Emmanuel Macron called the U.S. move both justified on safety grounds and "strictly nationalist," while Canada’s Mark Carney said it exposed the danger of overreliance on a handful of AI systems.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Google AI chief Demis Hassabis used the meeting to press for an international safety forum or standards body, even as Trump stressed U.S. AI dominance over China and said talks with Anthropic were "going fine."
The dispute sharpened a broader G-7 dilemma: democratic governments want safeguards on frontier AI, but the Anthropic ban is also pushing them to build domestic alternatives to reduce dependence on U.S. labs.