World leaders are pushing the United States to share its most advanced artificial intelligence — while also raising fears that Washington could pull the plug at any moment.
According to KSAT, the French president urged the US to share cutting-edge AI and called on democracies to cooperate on regulation. The message was twofold: open access to the best American systems, and a shared rulebook among democratic nations for governing the technology.
The concern goes deeper than access alone. According to TechCrunch, French President Macron and Indian Prime Minister Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the US could cut off access to American AI overnight. TechCrunch frames the core tension in its headline: leaders want American AI, but they don't want America to be able to turn it off.
That fear is no longer hypothetical. TechCrunch reports that a recent Anthropic blackout made the risk real, demonstrating that access to a leading US AI system can be interrupted.
The episode highlights a growing dependence: as governments and economies build on American-made AI, control over that infrastructure becomes a question of national sovereignty, not just technology procurement.
Why it matters: if a handful of US companies effectively hold an off switch for tools the rest of the world relies on, then access to AI becomes a geopolitical lever — and that is exactly what leaders like Macron and Modi are now scrambling to address.