Anthropic CEO Urges G7 Unity on AI Amid US Export Ban

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is urging G7 leaders and democratic nations to unite on artificial intelligence, cautioning against division. This plea comes as the US government has already formed AI alliances and restricted international access to Anthropic's new models. Amodei made his appeal at the G7 summit in France during a working lunch with world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron. Other tech leaders present were OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who both supported Amodei's call for cooperation. The executives stressed the need for democratic allies to collaborate on AI development. They warned that fractured alliances could lead to global risks, such as AI-powered cybersecurity breaches and bioterrorism. Hassabis and Altman proposed a formal technical standards body and a US-led forum to evaluate AI model safety. This call for unity follows the Trump administration's ban on Anthropic exporting its new "Mythos" and "Fable" AI models due to national security concerns. The US acted after reports that the models' safety features could be bypassed. This situation has created worry among European businesses about lagging economically and among American tech companies about losing foreign revenue. The bottom line is that the future of global AI development and security depends on international cooperation, not division.