Aidan Gomez, CEO of Canadian AI company Cohere, has spent years planning for the possibility that foreign governments might abruptly cut off access to frontier AI models. Earlier this month, when the U.S. government moved to restrict foreign access to Anthropic’s Mythos, it was a striking example of exactly what he’d been warning about.
“I think it’s woken everyone up to the reality, which is that centralized dependence on a single entity is a structural risk,” he told Fortune. “You can absolutely just have access revoked … and services shut down.”
