GoKawiilThis past Friday, the US Government issued an export control directive that prohibits Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to Claude Fable or Claude Mythos, their latest models.
I think Anthropic directly asked for this to happen.
My Case
A few days before this happened Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, published “Policy on the AI Exponential”:
The government should have the power to block or deter deployment of the model if it is determined, in light of third-party assessment, to present unacceptable risks. This power must be scoped to the above four specific risks and there must be protective measures against political favoritism or arbitrary decisions.
Dario is known for writing about regulation and the direction of AI as an industry and Anthropic in particular, and what he says is taken very seriously and is considered a definitive statement of the company’s position. I take his statements this way, it is likely that the people who write our laws, and to whom he talks personally, take his statements this way, and it is likely that any judge he ends up in front of will also take his statements this way.
Since this is an official statement, let’s take it piece by piece to make absolutely sure he is asking for what happened to Anthropic two days later.
The government should have the power to block or deter deployment of the model
Yes. The government is blocking deployment of Anthropic’s model.
if it is determined, in light of third-party assessment, to present unacceptable risks.
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