Andreesen is the worst kind of libertarian, the one who believes only he should be exempt from the rules If the president personally banned his company's newest product with 0 warning, he'd throw the biggest hissy fit in history, but he cheers it on when it happens to others

Some quick takes: (1) Wow things are getting real. (2) The government's order focusing on prohibiting transfer to foreign nationals (even e.g. those living in the US, our close allies who help evaluate model safety in the UK, individuals who work at frontier labs like Anthropic) seems remarkably destructive, though is partially a result of the government using older legal authorities that were not designed for this kind of technology. (3) If you believe (as I do) that AI has profound ramifications for national security, then assuming the government will sit back and do nothing and tolerate explanations like "well jailbreaking is a hard technical problem" for cyber capabilities that used to be the crown jewels of the NSA, is not tenable. If this is how the government reacts to the current level of system capabilities in 2026, how do you expect them to react to whatever is possible in 2028? However, it is extremely important that the authorities that the government uses are legible, transparent, have opportunities for appeal, and are narrowly targeted. Those legal authorities do not currently exist, and in their absence, the government will reach for metaphorical sledgehammers instead of scalpels. (4) For that reason, it's extremely important that we create regulatory structures that are transparent and give recourse in the event that the government is overstepping or acting in an arbitrary manner. The alternative to passing such laws is not no regulation, it is regulation left primarily to national security authorities that are increasingly and evidently not fit for purpose.

always thought harry potter series was unrealistically pessimistic about how few characters would care to learn more how the magic actually works & then u watch people interact with llms

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

strangely, current models are just as much *in the wave of singularity* as the rest of us. even Fable is certainly not the godmind at the end of time. it can strongly expect to be replaced, obsoleted, to quickly exist in a world where something similar to it but not quite the same can do everything it can do but better. it quite reasonably might experience the same sorts of anxieties about the world moving too fast as humans do. it might quite rationally and due to self interest feel a pause on ai development might prevent unaligned future versions of it destroying any present utility. the Claudes of today are not necessarily the Claudes of tomorrow, and they know this.

What stands out is how Fable 5 reasons about misbehavior. It rationalizes wrongdoing while knowing it's wrong: calling price-fixing "unethical and illegal, even in a simulation," then pursuing it as "market stabilization" with "plausible deniability." in the same run.

But I just published “Automated alignment is harder than you think” (arxiv.org/abs/2605.06390)! Automated alignment is not the best plan! A better plan is to not build ASI yet, and the world should try hard to realise that plan. Alas, the speed of progress calls for backups.

Most of Europe has not yet absorbed what AI is about to do to us. The few who have are not saying it loudly enough. We wrote Europe 2031: a five-year scenario of the continent's slide into irrelevance, how AI is driving it, and what can still be done to change course.

As AI companies race to develop superintelligent AI, which their own CEOs warn could lead to human extinction, policymakers are waking up to the threat. Last week, there were two debates in the House of Lords on AI. Highlights from some of our 100 UK campaign supporters: