Friday, June 12, 2026

Another beautiful Maginot Line

 The Commerce department just ordered an export control directive (quoting Anthropic) “to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5” by foreign nationals — even their own employees.

THAT'LL SHOW THEM!

To Hell with the Vatican. NO POPERY!

Running coding agents outside of a sandbox has always been a bad idea - it’s my top contender for a Challenger disaster incident, as described by Johann Rehberger in The Normalization of Deviance in AI.

Fable is arguably smarter and hence more suspicious of potentially malicious instructions. But that smartness is very much a two-edged sword: if it does get subverted by instructions, the amount of damage it can do given its relentless proactivity is terrifying . . . "

From Simon Willison’s Newsletter

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