‘It’s not a jailbreak’ — Research leading to U.S. export restrictions on top Anthropic models was for defense, cybersecurity CEO says

Research that caused the Commerce Department to impose strict limits on the use of Anthropic’s new AI models wasn’t geared toward offensive purposes, according to a cybersecurity CEO who saw the findings.

Late Friday, the department used national security export controls to bar the company from distributing Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

The directive applies to people outside the U.S. and foreign nationals in the U.S., including Anthropic’s own non-citizen employees. Due to the directive’s scope, Anthropic said it had no choice but to disable the models for all users.

The company said it was told that research on a “jailbreak” of Anthropic’s AI that sought to probe bypassing of safeguards sparked the export controls.

“We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions........

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