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Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands
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Governing AI through opaque, ad hoc interventions is unsustainable, experts warn.
Key facts
- To say that this is an unsettled area of export control rule-making would be an understatement,” said Andrew Reddie, a professor at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy
- Hanna Dohmen, a senior research analyst at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, told The Verge it is “an open question” as to whether the order strains existing rules
- If creating models that are impossible to jailbreak becomes the de facto standard for the United States, then it will have no AI models
- All of this points to the same problem: The Trump administration wants it both ways on AI
Summary
Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including users inside the US and its own employees, forcing Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone. “To my knowledge, this is the first time US export controls have been used to control access to an AI model in this way.” The Trump administration has not publicly explained the legal basis for the order, but website, Anthropic said the government cited “national security authorities” to justify “an export control directive” on the models. (Anthropic also claimed that the government’s concerns about a “ jailbreak ” potentially used by groups linked to China to access its models did not allow users to circumvent all of the company’s safeguards.