Senior Anthropic officials were expected to meet with White House officials Monday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
Senior staff members from artificial intelligence company Anthropic were expected to travel to Washington, D.C., on Monday to meet with White House officials.
The visit comes days after the company disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with a government-issued export control directive citing national security concerns, CNBC reported. Anthropic said it received the order to suspend access “by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.”
Anthropic released the two models Tuesday, Fable 5 to the general public and Mythos 5 to a smaller group of cyber defenders and infrastructure providers, The Hill reported. The company chose not to release Mythos 5 more widely over concerns it could be used for hacking.
The Hill reported that the government sent Anthropic “verbal evidence” of a “potential, narrow, non-universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws.”
Anthropic has had a strained relationship with the federal government over the past several months. In February, the Trump administration directed all federal agencies to stop using AI tools provided by Anthropic. The Defense Department then switched to OpenAI for its AI services.
The Pentagon had previously used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in much of its classified work, including its operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Contract negotiations between Anthropic and the Defense Department soured after the Trump administration demanded it be allowed to use the AI system for “all lawful purposes.” Anthropic, though, wanted certain guardrails in place to prevent the government from using its AI system for surveilling Americans or to create autonomous weapons.
Trump directed all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic, accusing it of being a “radical left, woke company” attempting “to dictate how our great military fights and wins wars!”
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