When Should Governments Pull the Plug on AI Models? (opens in new tab)

The recent controversy around Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models raises a question that I think every engineer working near AI infrastructure needs to take seriously: Where should governments draw the line between protecting the public and controlling the future of AI? According to Anthropic, the US government issued an export-control directive requiring the company to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign nationals. Anthropic then disabled access for all customers to make s...