Taken at face value, the Trump admin. ban on Fable calls into question the entire AI industry. The underlying technology is non-deterministic and therefore inherently unpredictable. It’s impossible to build in safeguards to reliably prevent jailbreaks. This is a turning point.

Interesting article with new details on the lead up to the export controls. Both sides are telling very different stories. Anthropic says they were given a 90 minute hard deadline to pull both models. The administration says their concerns were not taken seriously.

AI's Core Flaw: "Mass Regurgitation Of Misinformation" zerohedge.com/ai/ais-core-fl…

This might be a come to Jesus moment if the regulators suddenly realize that jailbreak prevention isn't real.

Everyone can see Anthropic's hypocrisy in pushing toward RSI while warning that doing so creates catastrophic risk. These All-In guys might not know the insiders' party line, the galaxy-brained “someone else will build it if we don't” logic. But they're still right: It's crazy.

DAVID SACKS SAYS ANTHROPIC'S EXPORT CONTROL WAS DUE TO COMPANY NOT WANTING TO FIX JAILBREAK ADMIN HOPES THEY REMEDIATE SAFETY ISSUE TO LIFT EXPORT CONTROL: X

To me this signals a dangerous precedent that AI companies can use the government against each other for advantage.

Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸

Breaking: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was among the tech leaders who raised concerns to senior Trump officials this week re: security risks in Anthropic's newest models. Those convos set in motion the government's new export controls on foreign national access to Mythos and Fable.

So we’re down to “coding assistant for *seasoned programmers*” as the only good, scalable use case for LLMs… right?

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

This headline is pretty accurate based on Meta folks I’ve been talking with Meta is successfully destroying their formerly standout engineering culture: forcefully assigning standout devs to this unit the layoffs It makes no rational sense. Hiring from Meta never been easier!