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Simon Blanchette, Lecturer, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

Sovereign AI? Anthropic shutdown reveals Canada’s weakness

The United States government recently ordered AI company Anthropic to suspend foreign nationals’ access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, two of its most advanced AI models, citing national security concerns. Anthropic responded by disabling the models for all customers.

Organizations in Canada, Europe and around the world that had embedded those tools in their workflows found them simply gone. No appeal process. No migration window. No warning. No jurisdiction over this decision.

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