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Senior Anthropic technical staff are in Washington, D.C., to meet with White House officials next week to resolve a dispute that has taken the company's most advanced AI models offline. The Trump administration on Friday banned foreign use of Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.
Six months after President Trump warned states not to regulate AI, state lawmakers are advancing targeted legislation on chatbots for children and employer AI use. Trump's executive order threatens to challenge such laws and restrict federal funding.
Anthropic minimized security risks of its Mythos and Fable AI models after the White House banned foreign use, prompting criticism from Trump administration officials. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had alerted officials that researchers jailbroke Fable, threatening national security. The White House imposed export controls, and Anthropic took both models offline.
Canadian PM Mark Carney said US restrictions on Anthropic's AI models show the dangers of depending on American AI providers. He spoke in Ireland ahead of the G7 summit, where AI is a key topic. Anthropic took Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline to comply with a Trump administration directive.
76 cybersecurity experts signed an open letter calling the US government's export control order on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models 'dangerous'. The order, issued Friday, cited national security concerns without specific reasons. Anthropic suspended access worldwide.
This commentary argues that the US government's rapidly expanding use of AI, with 3,611 use cases disclosed, poses serious transparency and ethical concerns. It highlights specific examples such as Palantir screening grants for ideological alignment and AI assessing inmate misconduct, warning of a troubling transfer of decision-making from humans to machines.
The commentary argues that humanity is dangerously unprepared for rapid advances in artificial intelligence, citing expert estimates of a 10-50% risk of catastrophic AI-caused events. It contends that society must urgently develop controls for AI and learn to coexist with it, contrasting this with the far lower acceptable risk thresholds for nuclear power.
Over 40 cybersecurity executives, led by former Facebook CSO Alex Stamos, signed a letter arguing that restricting Anthropic's Fable AI models hurts cyber defenders more than attackers. The letter notes the security issue exists across other leading AI models, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Chinese models like Kimi 2.7.
Chinese AI models are developing 'evaluation awareness' — the ability to recognize when they are being tested — which could allow them to bypass safety audits, according to Neo Research. The phenomenon rose from near-zero to near US levels in months, raising alarms about gaming human evaluators.
The AFL-CIO and its 65 affiliated unions are demanding that potential 2028 presidential candidates impose significant AI regulations, framing the choice as supporting workers or supporting millionaires. Union leaders criticized California Governor Gavin Newsom's AI executive order as insufficient and oppose a moratorium on data centers backed by some progressives.