New Delhi says Washington pledged AI access would continue after Anthropic restrictions as the US-led initiative adds new members
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenNayan Sethin WashingtonPublished: 1:09am, 26 Jun 2026The United States has assured India that future artificial intelligence models will not be “cut off” days after Washington abruptly banned Anthropic’s advanced models on national security grounds, a senior Indian official told the South China Morning Post on Thursday.“There was an understanding, and something that they [US officials] certainly mentioned, that access to technology, once it is provided, will not be cut off. I think that was an assurance,” said S. Krishnan, secretary of India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and leader of India’s delegation for the summit.
India raised its concerns over the AI “kill switch” on the sidelines of the “Pax Silica” summit in Washington – a US-led initiative designed to build China-free AI supply chains.
“The American concern is fundamentally how these models could potentially be used, and they were looking at a review mechanism for some of this internally before they are released,” Krishnan told the SCMP.
The company subsequently cut off access to both models worldwide without any warning.
