US assures India over AI ‘kill switch’ as ‘Pax Silica’ expands in bid to counter China

The US assured India that AI technology access would not be cut off after Anthropic abruptly banned its advanced models, a senior Indian official said. The assurance came at the 'Pax Silica' summit in Washington, a US-led initiative to build China-free AI supply chains.

ExclusiveUS assures India over AI ‘kill switch’ as ‘Pax Silica’ expands in bid to counter China New Delhi says Washington pledged AI access would continue after Anthropic restrictions as the US-led initiative adds new members Nayan Seth /author/nayan-seth in Washington abruptly banned https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3358067/how-anthropics-fable-5-shutdown-could-help-chinas-zhipu-glm-52-gain-ground?module=inline&pgtype=article Anthropic’s advanced models on national security grounds, a senior Indian official told the South China Morning Post on Thursday. “There was an understanding, and something that they US officials certainly mentioned, that access to technology, once it is provided, will not be cut off. I think that was an assurance,” said S. Krishnan, secretary of India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and leader of India’s delegation for the summit. India raised its concerns over the AI “kill switch” on the sidelines of the “Pax Silica” summit in Washington – a US-led initiative designed to build China-free AI supply chains. “The American concern is fundamentally how these models could potentially be used, and they were looking at a review mechanism for some of this internally before they are released,” Krishnan told the SCMP. issued an export control directive https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3356990/us-blocks-foreign-access-anthropics-newest-ai-models-over-security-risks?module=inline&pgtype=article on national security grounds barring foreign nationals from using Anthropic’s most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The company subsequently cut off access to both models worldwide without any warning.