The Anthropic Fable ban is over. The battle over how to tame AI has just begun

Yes, the Fable ban may be over. But America’s debate over the degree to which the federal government should control access to cutting-edge AI tools is just heating up.

There is growing awareness of just how powerful new AI tools are, but little agreement over how they should be controlled.

Spooked by the potential for new models from Anthropic and OpenAI to help bad actors find unknown software vulnerabilities to launch cyberattacks, the Trump administration recently created a new de facto approval process. It drew lightning bolts from across the tech-policy spectrum for flipping its approach to AI oversight, moving from an earlier hands-off approach. “U.S. labs are getting the message that they should make sure that their models are never very good at cyber evaluations, lest they land in endless model purgatory,” Alex Stamos, chief product officer of AI security firm Corridor, wrote on X after the Fable ban was lifted.

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