Anthropic has pushed for better safety protocols on AI. Now it’s getting a firsthand view of the impact that can have on a business.<\/p>\n
The AI giant’s new models were sidelined by the White House over potential security risks. BI’s Natalie Musumeci has a cheat sheet on the saga<\/a>, which kicked off on Friday.<\/p>\n My colleagues at Politico also have a breakdown on the whirlwind 24 hours leading up to the White House’s clampdown on Anthropic<\/a>.<\/p>\n For Anthropic, it’s been a hectic year balancing concerns over AI safety with its desire to compete in the AI race.<\/p>\n Just look at the back-and-forth over the past six months:<\/p>\n Jan. 27: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei drops a 19,000-word message on the future of AI and the “serious civilizational challenge<\/a>” it poses.<\/p>\n Feb. 24: Anthropic weakens its foundational safety commitment<\/a> amid heightened competition and a lack of government regulation.<\/p>\n Feb. 27: A dispute between Anthropic and the Department of Defense over how its AI models are used leads the DoD to label Anthropic a supply chain risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n April 7: Anthropic said its Mythos model is too powerful for the public, citing its knack for finding “high-severity vulnerabilities.”<\/a><\/p>\n June 1: Anthropic files a confidential S-1<\/a> for its IPO.<\/p>\n June 5: Anthropic calls for a coordinated slowdown<\/a> among frontier AI labs “to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology.”<\/p>\n June 9: Anthropic releases Fable 5<\/a>, which it built by putting safeguards on the aforementioned Mythos model.<\/p>\n June 10: Amodei publishes a blog saying AI is moving at a “lightning pace” while policy is “moving very slowly<\/a>.”<\/p>\n June 12: A US order barring foreign entities or individuals from using Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos leads it to disable the models for everyone<\/a>.<\/p>\n