It finally happened: Washington, D.C., took a decisive stand on artificial intelligence, saying “No” to one of the world’s most powerful technology companies. Since President Trump cut off foreign access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models, prompting the company to suspend Mythos 5 and Fable 5 altogether, Silicon Valley’s consternation has been palpable.

Anthropic employees are complaining about the Trump administration targeting them, while critics question everything from the move’s legality to its geopolitical sense. But the impulse to treat advanced AI as dangerous is the right one; Anthropic has been proudly proclaiming as much.

When the Trump administration learned Fable’s safeguards could fail, they decided to simply take Anthropic’s claims at face value. Now Anthropic is objecting that, since nobody else knows how to make AI safe either, “this standard [...] would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers.”

Well, good. I have been telling other researchers and elected officials like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that we will need to stop AI since before ChatGPT. We’re running out of time. Anthropic itself suggested a global pause would be better than proceeding along the path they’ve charted, which involves handing over more and more AI R&D to systems like Fable, even at the risk of irrevocably losing control.

They know they’re risking........

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