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WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has asked diplomats to \u2060push \u2060back against talk of a “kill switch” in American technology \u2060products following\u00a0the White House’s short-lived decision to keep foreigners from America’s most advanced AI models, according to a recent cable \u200breviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n

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The talking points, which were circulated worldwide, show how U.S. diplomats are trying to deal with international backlash from the Trump administration’s efforts to control how and to whom American \u200cAI companies release their models.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The State Department declined \u200cto comment and the White House did not return a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Trump administration’s June 12 move to block non-U.S. residents from Anthropic’s most advanced models, Mythos and Fable, \u2060on national security grounds \u2060prompted the AI company to abruptly suspend access to the models globally. Asian tech executives seized on \u200bthe disruption to tout their own alternatives and European lawmakers redoubled their calls for digital independence from the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Although the ban was lifted later the same month, the fallout lingers. Combined with Trump’s June 2 executive order, which asked\u00a0AI companies to voluntarily submit their models to 30 days of cybersecurity testing ahead of their release, it signaled a new appetite from the U.S. government to \u200bpolice AI companies’ products — and potentially yank them even from the hands of allies at a moment’s notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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European lawmaker Christophe Grudler said the episode showed that “the \u2060U.S. \u2060holds a real \u2018kill-switch\u2019 over essential technologies and \u2060that they are more than willing \u200bto use it.” Aura Salla, a member of the European People’s Party, the European Parliament’s biggest political group, said that the continent “cannot keep building \u200bits tech stack on access that can be switched \u2060off overnight by a foreign government.”\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The State Department cable, dated July 16, did not mention Anthropic by name or refer specifically to last month’s ban or Trump’s executive order, but it provided American diplomats with talking points aimed at countering the arguments that have sprung up in their wake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Pausing narrow uses or requiring a 30-day testing window prior to the release of a highly potent new technology is not a ‘Kill Switch’,” the cable said. “There is no government ‘magic button.’ This narrative is exaggerated and doesn’t capture the nuances of U.S. technology policy.”<\/p>\n

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Rubio’s cable pushed diplomats to fight “so-called ‘digital sovereignty'” initiatives, which it defined as efforts to restrict American tech firms’ access to \u2060foreign markets, subject them to localization requirements, charge them “network usage fees,” or force them to follow local rules around issues such as content moderation. Rubio had already instructed American diplomats to oppose similar data sovereignty measures earlier this year, Reuters previously reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The cable also discussed how to counter “AI sovereignty” arguments, instructing American diplomats to advertise American AI products as the best tools available and describe efforts to build rival AI systems from the ground up as a waste of time and resources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“American AI companies can build large, independent AI infrastructure, with secure and robust supply chains that minimize backdoor risk,” the cable said. “They build it. It’s yours.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Edward Fishman, director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations, said he sympathized with the safety considerations that prompted the U.S. government to first impose restrictions on Anthropic’s models, which can turbocharge complex hacking operations. But Fishman said that the Trump administration’s \u2060habit of wielding coercive economic tools such as tariffs and sanctions against friend and foe alike made the State Department’s pitch a tough sell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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European partners in particular were concerned that if their businesses became “ultra reliant on U.S. frontier AI models like those made by Anthropic and OpenAI, that the U.S. could use that as an economic weapon against them down the road,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Salla, the European lawmaker, told Reuters that the Trump administration’s repeated threats against countries \u200blike Denmark had generated an atmosphere of mistrust that no amount of rhetoric could dispel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“They have not shown us any indication \u200bthat they are reliable partners,” she said.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Raphael Satter, editing by Deepa Babington)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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