Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says US AI restrictions underscore
risks of dependence
[June 15, 2026] By
ROB GILLIES
WESTPORT, Ireland (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday
U.S. restrictions on Anthropic’s newest AI models show the dangers of
overreliance on a limited number of American providers.
AI giant Anthropic said Friday it has taken its latest artificial
intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply
with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by
foreign nationals.
The export controls mark the U.S. government’s most significant step to
date to restrict access to the most advanced AI models. Anthropic
released Fable widely this week. That model is a limited version of the
even more advanced Mythos, to which the company has tightly limited
access due to cybersecurity fears.
“The situation we’re in collectively right now with Mythos and Fable is
something that can happen with overreliance on certain models” Carney
said. “Nobody has done anything wrong in the situation. But we will have
done something wrong if we just accept this, don’t take the lesson,
don’t build out and diversify.”
Carney made the comments in Ireland ahead of the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains,
France. He said artificial intelligence will be one of the major
discussions on Monday night.
Anthropic, based in San Francisco, California, has said the new Mythos
model it announced on April 7 is so “strikingly capable” that it is
limiting its use to select customers because of its ability to surpass
human cybersecurity experts in finding and exploiting computer
vulnerabilities.
“You’ll hear me say this over and over again. It is never a good idea to
have one option,” Carney said.
Carney said he spent 45 minutes talking with French President Emmanuel
Macron about artificial intelligence on Friday night. He said there
“will not be a mission accomplished banner” that comes out of the summit
because the issues are complex.
Carney linked the U.S. AI curbs to Canada’s push to diversify trade and
technology. More than 70% of Canada’s exports go to the U.S. and Carney
has set a goal for Canada to double its non-U.S. exports in the next
decade. Trump’s trade war is causing a chill in investment.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, front left, has a picture taken
with Lily Meskil, 9 months and her grandfather Ger Basquel and
mother Rachel Basquel, during a visit to Aughagower, Ireland,
Sunday, June 14, 2026. (Andrew Downes/PA via AP)
 Carney doesn’t have a bilateral
meeting scheduled with Trump at the G7 despite the free trade
agreement between U.S., Canada and Mexico being up for renewal. He
said USMCA discussions will be held at the summit among Dominic
LeBlanc, the minister responsible for U.S. trade, Janice Charette,
Canada’s chief negotiator, and U.S. Trade Ambassador Jamieson Greer
and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
“The right way to do it at this stage, will be between the principal
negotiators, which is going to happen in Evian,” he said.
Carney visited his family’s ancestral village of Aghagower, Ireland
earlier Sunday. Carney’s grandfather, Robert Carney, and
grandmother, Nora Moran, were both from the town in County Mayo, and
immigrated to Canada in the 1920s.
Owen Morgan was with his 17-month-old son, Malachy Morgan -- who was
wearing Montreal Canadiens jersey -- and said people in Mayo county
are very proud of Carney.
“People are very impressed,” Morgan said. “He’s very much standing
up for Canadians, and I think that’s very much admired.”
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