Superintelligence newsletter's Kim Isenberg warns that Anthropic's undisclosed private talks with US officials lack critical policy transparency
Story Overview
Kim Isenberg of the Superintelligence newsletter flags Anthropic's quiet meetings with US officials over export controls on the Fable 5 model, noting that zero details have surfaced about the substance or next steps, leaving the wider AI community guessing about how safeguards and access rules will shake out.
Closed talks leave policy gaps exposed
Both sides have stayed mum on the specific vulnerabilities, proposed fixes, or any timeline for restoring access, which turns routine compliance talks into an open question about who gets to shape frontier model rules.
Precedent risk grows without public signals
Observers note this hush-hush approach could set patterns for future government reviews of new models, yet no one outside the room knows whether restrictions will lift soon or tighten further.
Many users criticized Anthropic's private talks with US officials as closed-door efforts to restrict freedoms and push regulations that harm open source AI while expressing distrust in the company's leadership.
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@kimmonismus At what age did you go bald
The silence emanating from Washington, which emerges from the talks between Anthropic and US officials, is far more worrying than any loud dispute.
@kimmonismus It is NOT worrying at all. Amodei has simply GOT TO GO AWAY! He demonstrates his FUCKIN' WOKE IDEOLOGIES every day. He can NOT lead a SOTA AI company. NO MORE!!! He Is Too Dangerous!
@kimmonismus Another day the US restricts our freedoms, the freedoms of anthropic, and puts open source Chinese companies that much further
@kimmonismus We have to give up on the idea we can rely on the US for LLM. The rest of the world can't trust the US under Trump.
@Enlitenme1 Well, that doesn't contradict what I said.
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@JasonBotterill too early 😢
@Spinecloud Yes, that's true. It's currently the biggest PR opportunity for open source there is.
@Enlitenme1 @kimmonismus Please contact your nearest mental care institute and get admitted instead of shitting all over on internet.
@kimmonismus I am curious what OpenAI is doing right now.
@kimmonismus Trump will decide which model I will use in my next project. Awesome world 👏🏻
@Enlitenme1 @kimmonismus Are Americans normally so dumb? Or is it from the slop they eat?
@kimmonismus The USG has assumed strategic leadership of the US AI industry. God help humanity when the Epstein class are at the wheel. So long, and thanks for all the fish. 🐠
@Enlitenme1 @kimmonismus Claude is the least woke model.
@kimmonismus True. The fact that we haven’t heard some kind of statement from Trump/Hegseth/Vance or any of the other ppl in the admin is quite worrying. Normally they’re very vocal. This must be rly serious then.
And worrying.
@JasonBotterill haha :D
@JasonBotterill If that were true, I would thank you forever. His holyness JB
@kimmonismus Silence usually means the briefing went classified or the ask was way bigger than they’re comfortable admitting publicly.
Not even close! They are ALL woke, in their own smarmy way, and personally speaking, they all suck!
Coding is the only thing some of them do EXCELLENTLY.
Writing (human-relatable) text is where the woke bullshit reveals itself. They all write text like shit! Hate It. Don't bother with it.