Posted on 06/15/2026 3:35:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Donald Trump has shocked the world by banning the use of the most advanced AI by foreigners, including Britons, over national security fears.
The Trump administration has ordered that Anthropic's latest systems, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, be cut off from non-Americans, including those based in the US. The AI systems are theoretically capable of conducting large-scale hacking attacks and developing bioweapons.
Anthropic said the only way to comply with the ban was to universally block access to its most advanced models, including for US citizens. Its popular Claude AI remains available.
Tom Tugendhat, the former Conservative security minister, warned that the ban exposed the UK's lack of sovereign control of cutting-edge AI.
Writing on X, he said the ban was "the inevitable result of technology shaping warfare so that sovereignty is more about code than cannons".
Mr Tugendhat told The Telegraph: "AI is the new competition for sovereignty."
Andrew Griffith, the UK shadow business secretary, called the move "a disaster for Britain".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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“The AI systems are theoretically capable of conducting large-scale hacking attacks and developing bioweapons.” This will not end well . . . at least not for most of us.
The bloom is off the rose. AI is farther ahead than the public understands.
Domestically-owned AI is at a level, now, that access by foreign entities probably constitutes a violation of the International Traffic In Arms Regulations of the United States Government; a key regulatory stop against exporting any technology applicable in a military or national defense context.
Claude was already powerful. These newest iterations are what could easily be characterized as “weapons grade”; there is NO WAY we want North Korea, China, or any other tin horn despotic regime on Earth having access to this kind of computing power, which they would INEVITABLY be using AGAINST us.
This is the greatest marketing campaign in the history of technology.
Hype, Hype, Hype, Hype, Hype, Hype crash.
I used Fable 5 for a couple of days until it was taken down.
Fable 5 is a game-changer for developers like me. It was absolutely astounding. Hopefully I can get access to it again.
what did you observe that made it better?
Yes. It is already too late. It has been thus for a long while. I do not look forward to the future, not being a member of the ultra-wealthy class. This has become their world, with the rest of us getting the crumbs. AI will increasingly be used as a very cheap and effective attack dog/cudgel to keep us in our place.
I have real concern of Britain sliding into Islamist militancy. Am I the only one? We should be concerned about sharing cutting edge technology them. It could end up being used against us.
“Claude Fable 5 understands diagrams, charts, and tables nested in files and PDFs, improving work across document-heavy work in finance, legal, analytics, and architecture. The model also uses vision to help evaluate its own coding work, checking outputs against the original design or goal.”
“Claude Fable 5 includes robust safeguards for cybersecurity and biology. Queries in these domains are automatically routed to Opus 4.8 if flagged by these safeguards.”
https://www.anthropic.com/claude/fable
I have seen Claude AI vid’s on social media. Most impressive. Of course, that is the fun side. I am sure the dark uses are equally impressive.
“Drug design: Using Mythos 5, our internal protein design experts accelerated aspects of the drug design process by around 10 times. In one example, they found that Mythos 5, with protein design and bioinformatics tools but no human assistance, matches or beats skilled human operators. In doing so, the model executes all of the tasks that are normally completed by a scientist: choosing binding sites, selecting and running protein design tools, and recovering from failures along the way. Nine of the 14 protein targets from this study (shown below) yielded strong candidates for drug design that we’re currently investigating.”
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
They should use their advanced AI to make sure only the good guys have access to it. I supposed it’s not that advanced.
We're not at that point yet.
Yeah. But it sure does look like this Administration capped the tube.
It felt a WHOLE lot more like a senior developer, asking the right questions, working off of best practices, and so on. So smooth.
One thing I *really* liked was that at points in development, it would initiate having “3 reviewers” evaluate the code from different perspectives, and those reviewers would pass the feedback to Claude Fable 5.
This is an example of the “conversation” from Fable 5:
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Spec written. Now an adversarial review pass — three reviewers with different lenses, since this document is about to drive the whole build.
Ran workflow review-spec
While the reviewers work, let me save the project to memory so future sessions pick it up.
Saved a memory
Background workflow completed
Adversarial review of the AutoAuthor Sheets SPEC.md from three lenses 8m 45s
The reviewers came back with substantive findings. Let me read the full set.
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Another bit of conversation with Fable 5:
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Phase one is done: the plugin and HMAC contract are built, adversarially reviewed, hardened, and fully green — 48 PHPUnit tests (85 assertions) + 25 Vitest tests, both suites asserting against the same golden-vector fixture, plus a clean syntax lint across every plugin file.
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Wild, right? I’ve never seen an LLM initiate having multiple “adversarial reviewers” play a role in development like this.
Muslims are entirely loyal to the Ummah and will share with fellow Muslims against the wishes of inferior races and groups. there is no moderation in Islam says Ayatollah
The EU's AI Act will hamper tools like Claude because the sophistication of the AI means that it will likely be classified as "High-Risk" even though it was not intended as such. High-Risk refers to AI that can monitor individual activities, manipulate individuals, and violate their privacy. Claude can do all of that. I'm not sure the EU is wrong, but unless every other country adopts the same standards and enforces them, then the EU will be left behind. Personally, I think that the only defense against AI is another AI at this point, at least if you regularly engage in the modern world.
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