US assures India over AI ‘kill switch’ as ‘Pax Silica’ expands in bid to counter China

The 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 China-morning-post" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="12558" data-entity-type="organization">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.