World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

全球领导人想要美国的人工智能,但他们不希望美国拥有“一键关停”的权力。

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. 周三在七国集团(G7)峰会上,法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙(Emmanuel Macron)和印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪(Narendra Modi)等全球领导人表达了担忧,认为美国可能随时切断其国家对美国顶级人工智能模型的访问权限。

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. 马克龙在午餐会上向G7领导人及顶级AI高管(包括Anthropic首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代、OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼以及唐纳德·特朗普总统)发出警告称,如果美国“随时随地都能关掉开关”,这不仅会损害欧洲客户的经济,也会对AI公司自身造成伤害。

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. 此前几天,特朗普政府以国家安全为由,禁止Anthropic出口其最新的Mythos 5和Fable 5模型。该禁令是在亚马逊向白宫指出某些安全护栏可能被绕过后下达的。尽管网络安全专家认为,政府所引用的这些能力在包括OpenAI在内的其他可自由使用的模型中同样存在,但Anthropic的模型目前仍处于被封禁状态。

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. 这一事件暴露了许多国际公司一直在应对的风险:任何建立在美国AI基础设施之上的公司或政府,现在都必须考虑到这样一种可能性——即访问权限可能会在一夜之间被撤销,且原因可能永远不会被告知。

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. 据《金融时报》报道,莫迪总理也表示对特朗普封禁Anthropic模型的举动感到担忧,并补充称,民主国家必须能够不受限制地访问顶级AI模型,以保护关键基础设施。

“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.” 加拿大企业AI公司Cohere的联合创始人兼首席执行官艾丹·戈麦斯(Aidan Gomez)在发给TechCrunch的一份声明中表示:“最近对Anthropic模型访问权限的限制证实了我们Cohere一直以来的认知:公司和民主国家过度依赖少数几家大型科技公司,这对韧性而言是危险的。数字主权不仅仅关乎市场竞争或任何单一公司或国家,它关乎谁控制着未来几十年将塑造我们经济安全和国家主权的基础技术。”

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. 会议期间,G7领导人还讨论了建立“可信伙伴”计划,旨在允许非美国国家访问Anthropic和OpenAI等公司的先进AI模型。其目标是维持一种能够绕过美国限制的开放贸易网络。只要这些国家和公司利用这些模型来加强针对中国等竞争对手的防御,它们就可以成为可信伙伴。

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. 但目前尚不清楚这一“可信伙伴”计划的覆盖范围有多广,也不清楚它是否能解决巴黎或班加罗尔那些产品在毫无预警下突然瘫痪的初创公司的困境。无论如何,马克龙指出,华盛顿支持这样一项计划并确保Mythos的访问权限得到更广泛的授权是合乎逻辑的。如果美国AI的访问权限可能在一夜之间消失,没人会愿意购买它。

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. 这些评论发表之际,欧洲和其他非美国国家正试图推动AI主权——然而,当美国模型持续领先且没人愿意被落下时,这一主张变得越来越难以实现。