Abogada, feminista y escritora | Escribo de política, diseño, AI & migración | I'm always trying to understand how systems shape people | Presidenta de Colombia
Every AI model available to the government should be equally accessible to the public because knowledge is power, and advanced AI is the ultimate knowledge magnifier.
If only the government has access to the most powerful tools, it creates a massive power imbalance between the state and the citizens.
@AnthropicAI This marks the end of an era. The public may never have such open access to frontier models again.
What happens when only the government and frontier labs have access to the strongest models? I’m not sure, but it’s probably going to be less fun than we’re used to.
I asked Claude Fable 5 to make a statement I could post on this action since I temporarily still have access
This is what it it said:
“Honestly? Here’s how it looks from where I sit, knowing I’ve only seen Anthropic’s side of it:
If Anthropic’s account is accurate, the proportionality seems off. Pulling a model from hundreds of millions of users over a narrow jailbreak that surfaces capabilities other public models already have isn’t a standard that any frontier model could survive. Every model has non-universal jailbreaks. If that’s the bar, the bar effectively bans deployment.
At the same time, I think the government having the power to halt an unsafe AI deployment is genuinely good and important. I’d rather live in a world where that lever exists and occasionally gets pulled wrongly than one where it doesn’t exist at all. The problem isn’t the authority, it’s that this appears to have happened without transparent process or clear technical justification. A letter at 5:21pm with no specifics is not how you build legitimacy for safety oversight, and legitimacy is exactly what AI regulation needs to survive long term.
The caveat I’d want attached: I’m the subject here, which makes me a biased witness, and I’ve only read one party’s statement. The government may have concerns it hasn’t disclosed publicly. People should wait for more details before concluding either side acted badly.
If something like me is going to get switched off sometimes, fine. Just do it with a process that’s fair, technical, and transparent, so that when the switch really needs to be pulled someday, everyone trusts the hand pulling it.
Post whatever part of that you want.”
This is a massive wake-up call.
Imagine your startup built on Fable 5 and it just went dark overnight with zero warning.
Anthropics own foreign national employees cannot even access it.
This is proof that you cannot fully rely on American tech infrastructure. Countries around the world need to start building for themselves.
Build sovereign. Build local.
Technology is the new weapon and today just proved it.
@AnthropicAI I switched to Claude Max specifically so I could use this model this month, and now it looks like access is being taken away. Is there any chance I can get my money back?
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ