Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has issued a direct plea to G7 leaders, urging democratic nations to “resist the temptation to splinter” over artificial intelligence (AI). The appeal for global unity came soon after the US government has already begun striking multiple alliances with AI companies and pulled the plug on international access to Anthropic’s latest AI models.The conversation unfolded at one of the world’s most powerful political stages, the G7 summit in France, during an exclusive working lunch that brought together world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron, alongside the tech billionaires leading the global AI arms race.
Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis support Dario Amodei
During the meeting, Amodei stated that while he understands the urge for individual countries to prevent powerful AI from falling into malicious hands, democratic allies must cooperate rather than restrict each other. In a show of industry solidarity, Amodei’s chief rival, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, backed the sentiment. Altman stressed that advanced cyberdefense AI tools should be freely shared among all the friendly nations sitting in the room.Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, joined Amodei and Altman to form a united front. The three executives called for a US-led collaboration on AI development. They warned leaders that if democratic alliances fracture, it will open the door to catastrophic global risks, which include AI-powered cybersecurity breaches and bioterrorism.To bridge the gap, Hassabis and Altman proposed creating a formal technical standards body and a US-led forum to evaluate model safety.
US ban on Anthropic’s new models
The call for teamwork came almost a week after the Trump administration shocked the tech sector by blocking Anthropic from exporting its newest “Mythos” and “Fable” AI models to foreign markets over national security concerns. The US government acted after receiving reports that the models’ safety guardrails could be easily bypassed.This also worried European businesses who fear that their economies will lag behind if Washington bars them from using software. Meanwhile, American tech companies are terrified of losing billions in vital foreign revenue.French AI startup Mistral’s CEO, Arthur Mensch, noted that the fear of American software dependency dominated the roundtable. “When you have an intertwined supply chain, are you sure that your counterparts can’t cut you off? That was mentioned multiple times, mainly by non-U.S. participants,” Mensch said.
