Canadian PM Urges AI Diversification After US Anthropic Block, Decentralized AI Tokens Rally
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the U.S. order that forced Anthropic to disable its frontier models shows the danger of relying on a few American AI providers. He warned that when one company can be compelled to cut off access worldwide, centralized AI becomes a single point of failure, and the real mistake would be to avoid diversifying models and infrastructure. The action targeted Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 systems on national security grounds, and Anthropic complied while disputing the rationale. The dispute has fueled broader concern that concentrated AI control creates systemic risk similar to finance. The episode also boosted interest in decentralized AI projects, which spread model control across independent operators. But critics note that decentralization may not fully solve the problem if compute and chips remain concentrated among a few major suppliers.
