Canadian PM warns US AI ban highlights reliance risk

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has warned that recent U.S. restrictions on advanced artificial intelligence models demonstrate the strategic risks of global overreliance on a handful of powerful technologies. Speaking on Sunday in Ireland, Carney framed the export ban as a lesson in the need for international diversification of AI development.

The warning follows a U.S. directive that led San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic to take its latest models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline for foreign users. The Trump administration's export controls, announced last week, aim to prevent access by foreign nationals and represent a significant step to restrict the most advanced AI systems. Anthropic has stated its new Mythos model, announced on April 7, is so capable at finding and exploiting computer vulnerabilities that it has limited its use to select customers.

Carney said the situation with these specific models illustrates a broader vulnerability. He stressed that while no one is at fault for the current restrictions, failing to learn from it would be a mistake. The prime minister called for building out and diversifying AI capabilities to mitigate such "model...