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White House Keeps Export Controls on Anthropic After Disagreement Over AI Model Jailbreak
The White House and Anthropic are creating benchmarks to evaluate security flaws in AI models after export controls suspended access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Negotiations resumed following weekend calls between company leaders and senior administration officials.
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The White House and Anthropic are developing a framework to assess the severity of security flaws in new AI models and determine when government intervention is warranted. The effort follows the White House's imposition of export controls on Anthropic that forced the company to suspend access for all users to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.
The controls barred foreign users from accessing the models after administration officials identified a jailbreak vulnerability.
Administration officials and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei disagreed over the severity of the jailbreak, according to prior reporting by POLITICO. The company argued the vulnerability was limited and did not constitute a meaningful security flaw. Talks between the two sides collapsed on Friday after Anthropic rejected demands to de-deploy Fable.
Over the weekend, senior administration officials and Anthropic leaders held lengthy calls involving Anthropic cofounder Tom Brown, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross. Anthropic dispatched senior researchers and safeguards experts to the Commerce Department on Monday.
The discussions are led on the company side by Sarah Heck, head of public policy, and Tom Brown.
The talks aim to develop benchmarks assessing the extent to which safeguards were bypassed, the capabilities exposed, and the practical consequences of the breach. As of Tuesday, Fable 5 remains offline, with users seeing the message "Fable 5 is currently unavailable" when using Claude. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attended a recent G7 lunch with world leaders and CEOs.
