World Leaders Want American AI — But Fear the U.S. Could Switch It Off
Original: World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.
G7 leaders fear the U.S. could revoke AI access overnight after an Anthropic blackout made that risk concrete.
At the G7 summit, French President Macron and Indian PM Modi warned that the U.S. could cut foreign access to American AI services without notice. An Anthropic service blackout has since turned that abstract geopolitical fear into a real incident. The episode is accelerating global debate over AI sovereignty and the strategic risks of depending on a single nation's AI infrastructure.
At the G7 summit, two of the world's most influential leaders — French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — raised an alarm that has quietly been building among foreign governments: the United States could, with little warning, cut off international access to American AI platforms. Whether through sanctions, trade policy, regulatory action, or a unilateral corporate decision, that kill switch exists — and the Anthropic blackout just demonstrated it is real.
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