Last week Nieuwsuur reported that Trump has ordered AI company Anthropic to block its most advanced models for foreigners. Non-American governments, companies and individuals may no longer use so-called super-AIs such as Mythos. What sounded like a doom scenario yesterday is today's news.
As early as 2025, experts warned that the US could restrict access to American SaaS services for organisations that were not aligned with them — think of criticism of Israel policy. This spring, the Digital Autonomy Competence Center outlined a scenario in which the US government demanded data from policy officials to steer European policy. And last Thursday, thinkers published the "Europe 2031" scenario: what happens if the US restricts access to the best AI models?
The common thread is clear: the warnings are becoming reality, step by step. And it affects more than AI chatbots. Organisations that run their data, reports and analytics in American cloud environments build a dependency that can become a political instrument at any moment.
At what — seemingly far-fetched — scenario would your organisation want to be independent from the US? And are you already prepared for it?