The Fable 5 Crisis Continues

Today on the AI Daily Brief, as the work week starts without resolution, the Fable five crisis continues. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Section, Assembly, and OutSystems. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe at Apple Podcasts. And if you wanna learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. Today, we are picking up where we left off in the chaotic saga of Anthropic versus the White House around Fable five. For those just getting up to speed, on Friday night, The United States issued an export control directive to suspend access to Fable five and Mythos five to any foreign nationals. Given the breadth of that order, the only choice that Anthropic had in their estimation was to take the model down entirely. Now the first phase, in the absence of better information, was stunned reactions and everyone casting about for who to blame. And while there might have been some partisans for either the Anthropic side or the US government side, candidly, no one was looking all that great. I did an emergency episode on Saturday morning, and subsequent to that, we started to get a little bit more information, both in the form of narrative construction as well as in the form of reporting. The first important post came from former AISar David Sacks who wrote, 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 cyber weapon 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 US government who was testing Fable came forward with the jailbreak of these 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 in the US government 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 cyberweapon could be defined as not serious. In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken …