A remark by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about the India AI Impact Summit held earlier in New Delhi had started a conflict between India’s ruling BJP, and the Congress party.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Amodei said the summit, which was held in New Delhi and witnessed attendance by over 100 AI leaders, CEOs and CXOs, was “extremely disorganized.”
He was responding to a question about an awkward moment on stage where he and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman avoided holding hands like the rest of the tech leaders. Notably, Amodei had previously worked as vice president of research at OpenAI, before he left the company and founded Anthropic.
Amodei’s remarks were highlighted by Congress leaders, with party leader Abhishek Singhvi claiming the summit was for “Artificial Image Management.”
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Amitabh Dubey, research and monitoring in-charge at the All India Congress Committee, took to X to share a clip of Amodei making these remarks about the India AI Impact Summit.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s ruling party led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, pushed back on the criticism, saying the clip had been “edited” and omitted the portion in which Amodei clarified that such discussions are common at AI summits around the world.
“The India-loathing Congress ecosystem is circulating an edited clip to malign the hugely successful AI Summit held in Delhi,” Amit Malviya, in-charge of BJP’s information and technology department, said while replying to Congress’s post on X. Malviya accused the opposition party of trying to “run down India’s achievements”
“… An edited video, stripped of clarification, is enough for them to manufacture outrage and score political points,” Malviya said, adding that the summit had brought together global leaders, policy makers and industry experts.
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This comes while the President Donald Trump ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its powerful Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models, citing national security concerns. This unprecedented order was issued for all foreign nationals in and outside the U.S. last week, promoting Anthropic to take the two AI models completely offline to ensure compliance.
Anthropic had granted 200 institutions across 15 countries access to their frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, to test for vulnerabilities. Anthropic said the U.S. government did not provide a reason for the order, but that it was its “understanding” that the Trump administration believed it had become aware of a method of “jailbreaking” Fable 5.
The Trump administration’s move came as a shock around the world, particularly in Europe, which is heavily dependent on U.S.-developed AI.
Earlier this week, Anthropic staff went to Washington, D.C., to discuss this move. The AI firm had already been at odds with the White House following a disagreement earlier this year which led to it being blacklisted.
Nileena Sunil is a Reporter for the American Bazaar. A postgraduate in English Literature from Christ University, Bengaluru, she has previously worked as an instructional designer and a copywriter before switching fields.
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