Amodei Urges G7 Unity on AI After U.S. Bans Anthropic Models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged G7 leaders in Évian-les-Bains on June 17 to avoid fracturing on artificial intelligence policy after the U.S. Commerce Department barred exports of Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5.\n\nAmodei made the remarks during a working lunch, seated across from former President Donald Trump. He called on democratic governments to align on rules and access to advanced AI and urged them to ‘resist the temptation to splinter.’\n\nThe Commerce Department’s directive bars Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from being provided to non-U.S. users and from access by foreign nationals inside the United States. Officials cited a reported jailbreak of Mythos 5 that they say could let users bypass safety guardrails and extract information about software vulnerabilities.\n\nAnthropic sent senior staff to Washington to seek a reversal. The company warned that applying the same standard across the industry would halt routine model releases and slow deployments of new systems.\n\nSam Altman of OpenAI and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind were at the table and supported Amodei’s public appeal for coordinated policy.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the dispute had ‘clarified the stakes’ and warned that if the United States ‘from one day to the next can turn off the switch,’ it would damage large U.S. companies leading the field. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated democratic countries need continued access to frontier AI to protect critical infrastructure.\n\nEarlier this year, former President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic products after the company rejected Pentagon contract terms that would require its AI to be available for ‘any lawful purpose.’ The Commerce Department’s export controls follow those steps and reflect rising concerns inside the U.S. government about safety and security risks tied to advanced models.\n\nAmodei left Évian-les-Bains without a policy agreement. He framed his remarks as a plea for coordinated international standards and continued access for democratic nations, while U.S. officials say restrictions are needed to manage immediate security risks.