Congress just dropped a bomb on the Anthropic ban
Four members of Congress request an explanation of Howard W. Lutnick's export ban against Claude Fable no later than 26th June
Here's few questions they are asking:
- Was Anthropic even given a chance to fix it before you banned them?
- Is this capability truly unique to Anthropic or do other models have the same thing?
- Did you actually follow the required legal process before slapping controls on the model?
- What’s the real factual basis for claiming “military intelligence end use”?
This could be the first real legal pushback
Ignoring a bipartisan letter from Congress won’t look good especially with accusations that Lutnick has financial ties to OpenAI
What do you think might be the explanation behind fable ban?
There’s nothing uniquely vulnerable about software engineering wrt to being replaced by AI.
It’s just the highest-leverage profession, so AI is coming for it first.
Once we automate automation, all those “safe” niche low-leverage jobs are next.