World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.
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, OpenAI 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.
The episode has exposed a risk that many international companies have been grappling with : Any company or government that builds on U.S. AI infrastructure now has to reckon with the possibility that access can be revoked overnight, for reasons they may never be told.
Prime Minister Modi also said he was concerned about Trump’s move to block Anthropic’s model, according to reporting from Financial Times , adding that democratic nations must have unfettered access to top AI models to protect critical infrastructure.
“The recent restriction on access to Anthropic’s models confirms what we at Cohere have known all along: that companies and democratic nations remaining dependent on a small handful of big tech companies is dangerous to resilience,” Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Canadian enterprise AI firm Cohere, said in a statement shared with TechCrunch. “Digital sovereignty is not just about market competition or any one company or nation. It’s about who controls the foundational technology that will shape our economic security and national sovereignty for decades to come.”
During the meeting, G7 leaders also discussed the creation of a “trusted partners” scheme that would grant access for non-U.S. nations to advanced AI models from firms like Anthropic and OpenAI. The goal is to maintain a sort of open trade network that bypasses U.S. restrictions. Both countries and companies could be trusted partners, as long as they used the models to develop stronger defenses against rivals like China.
But it’s not clear how far that trusted partner scheme would extend, or whether it’s an answer for a startup in Paris or Bangalore that just had its product break without warning.
Regardless, Macron noted that it would make sense for Washington to back such a scheme and to ensure Mythos access was granted more broadly. Nobody would want to buy U.S. AI access if it could disappear overnight.
The comments were made even as Europe and other non-U.S. countries attempt to push for AI sovereignty — an increasingly difficult case to make when American models keep pulling ahead and nobody wants to be left out.
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Pontos-chave
- A dependência da infraestrutura de IA dos EUA representa um risco para a soberania digital do Brasil.
- A criação de parcerias internacionais pode oferecer ao Brasil acesso a tecnologias avançadas sem a vulnerabilidade das políticas unilaterais dos EUA.
- O episódio com a Anthropic destaca a necessidade de um debate interno sobre a política de IA e a construção de uma infraestrutura local.
Análise editorial
A preocupação expressa por líderes mundiais, como Macron e Modi, reflete um dilema crescente no cenário global da inteligência artificial: a dependência das nações em relação à infraestrutura de IA dos EUA. Para o setor de tecnologia brasileiro, isso representa um alerta sobre a necessidade de diversificação e desenvolvimento de soluções locais. O Brasil, que já enfrenta desafios em termos de inovação tecnológica, deve considerar a construção de sua própria infraestrutura de IA para evitar a vulnerabilidade a decisões políticas externas que podem impactar o acesso a tecnologias críticas.
Além disso, a proposta de um esquema de 'parceiros confiáveis' entre as nações do G7 indica uma tentativa de criar um ecossistema mais resiliente. Para o Brasil, isso pode significar oportunidades de colaboração com outros países que buscam alternativas à dependência da tecnologia americana. A formação de alianças estratégicas com nações que compartilham preocupações semelhantes pode ser um caminho viável para garantir acesso a tecnologias avançadas sem os riscos associados a políticas unilaterais.
O episódio envolvendo a Anthropic também levanta questões sobre a governança e a regulação da IA em um contexto global. À medida que mais países se tornam conscientes da importância da soberania digital, o Brasil deve se engajar em discussões internacionais sobre como garantir um acesso equitativo e seguro às tecnologias emergentes. A participação ativa em fóruns e iniciativas globais pode ajudar o Brasil a moldar um futuro onde a tecnologia não seja apenas uma extensão do poder econômico, mas também uma ferramenta de autonomia e segurança nacional.
Por fim, o cenário atual destaca a urgência de um debate interno sobre a política de IA no Brasil. O país precisa não apenas acompanhar as tendências globais, mas também estabelecer uma visão clara sobre como deseja se posicionar no ecossistema de IA. Isso inclui investir em pesquisa e desenvolvimento, fomentar startups locais e criar um ambiente regulatório que incentive a inovação, ao mesmo tempo em que protege os interesses nacionais.
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