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Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, their weekly newsletter on AI.
Key facts
- Then it released a modified version called Fable which it said was safer to the public on Tuesday, June 9
- TheFrench politician Bruno Retailleau described it as a “wake-up call” that should motivate Europe to build more AI
- Right now, the biggest players shaping how AI gets used are the companies and the White House
- The doomers got their government intervention—not over a bioweapon or rogue AI, but in response to an AI model that’s good at coding
Summary
For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April the company said it had built an AI model called Mythos that was so good at working with code it could pose a global cybersecurity threat. Then it released a modified version called Fable which it said was safer to the public on Tuesday, June 9. People worried about catastrophic effects of AI—broadly labeled “doomers”—have said for years that the technology poses a threat to humanity and published proposals for how the government should intervene in its development.
Open-source models from China are capable and incredibly cheap, and they can be downloaded to run on anyone’s servers with no rules or guardrails. (This makes them attractive to companies that don’t want access turned off on the basis of a decision from the White House—but equally attractive to cybercriminals, the type that Anthropic hoped to fend off by building safety guardrails into its models.)