Fable 5: They switched off my AI mid-build. The timeline is the story
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- #Tech Regulation
- #AI Ethics
- #Export Controls
- Anthropic received a US export control directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, including employees, based on passport, not specific countries or capabilities.
- The author argues the order used nationality-based controls for a capability already accessible via other models like GPT-5.5, making it ineffective and discriminatory.
- The directive came ten days after a voluntary AI safety framework was announced, highlighting a shift from voluntary to mandatory enforcement before guidelines were established.
- The author contends that legitimate regulation should involve transparent laws, evidence-based thresholds, no nationality sorting for common capabilities, parity testing, and defense-in-depth strategies.
- Personal experience of discrimination in Europe informs the author's criticism of using passports to gatekeep technology, warning against repeating such patterns in the US.