Ars Technica reports that Anthropic shut down its Fable and Mythos models following a directive from the Trump administration. The Commerce Department was reportedly concerned that a Fable 5 jailbreak could create a national security threat. Based on the provided excerpt, the article frames the shutdown as a government-driven AI safety and security intervention, but it does not specify the technical details of the jailbreak or the scope of the models’ deployment.
This issue of Import AI 456, written by Jack Clark, delves into three highly forward-looking and interconnected areas of AI development: the relationship…