Canada PM: US AI Restrictions Show Risk06/15 06:12

   

   WESTPORT, Ireland (AP) -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday 
U.S. restrictions on Anthropic's newest AI models show the dangers of 
overreliance on a limited number of American providers.

   AI giant Anthropic said Friday it has taken its latest artificial 
intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a 
directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign 
nationals.

   The export controls mark the U.S. government's most significant step to date 
to restrict access to the most advanced AI models. Anthropic released Fable 
widely this week. That model is a limited version of the even more advanced 
Mythos, to which the company has tightly limited access due to cybersecurity 
fears.

   "The situation we're in collectively right now with Mythos and Fable is 
something that can happen with overreliance on certain models" Carney said. 
"Nobody has done anything wrong in the situation. But we will have done 
something wrong if we just accept this, don't take the lesson, don't build out 
and diversify."

   Carney made the comments in Ireland ahead of the G7 summit in 
Evian-les-Bains, France. He said artificial intelligence will be one of the 
major discussions on Monday night.

   Anthropic, based in San Francisco, California, has said the new Mythos model 
it announced on April 7 is so "strikingly capable" that it is limiting its use 
to select customers because of its ability to surpass human cybersecurity 
experts in finding and exploiting computer vulnerabilities.

   "You'll hear me say this over and over again. It is never a good idea to 
have one option," Carney said.

   Carney said he spent 45 minutes talking with French President Emmanuel 
Macron about artificial intelligence on Friday night. He said there "will not 
be a mission accomplished banner" that comes out of the summit because the 
issues are complex.

   Carney linked the U.S. AI curbs to Canada's push to diversify trade and 
technology. More than 70% of Canada's exports go to the U.S. and Carney has set 
a goal for Canada to double its non-U.S. exports in the next decade. Trump's 
trade war is causing a chill in investment.

   Carney doesn't have a bilateral meeting scheduled with Trump at the G7 
despite the free trade agreement between U.S., Canada and Mexico being up for 
renewal. He said USMCA discussions will be held at the summit among Dominic 
LeBlanc, the minister responsible for U.S. trade, Janice Charette, Canada's 
chief negotiator, and U.S. Trade Ambassador Jamieson Greer and Treasury 
Secretary Scott Bessent.

   "The right way to do it at this stage, will be between the principal 
negotiators, which is going to happen in Evian," he said.

   Carney visited his family's ancestral village of Aghagower, Ireland earlier 
Sunday. Carney's grandfather, Robert Carney, and grandmother, Nora Moran, were 
both from the town in County Mayo, and immigrated to Canada in the 1920s.

   Owen Morgan was with his 17-month-old son, Malachy Morgan -- who was wearing 
Montreal Canadiens jersey -- and said people in Mayo county are very proud of 
Carney.

   "People are very impressed," Morgan said. "He's very much standing up for 
Canadians, and I think that's very much admired."