The partnership between the White House and Anthropic marks a pivot in their negotiations, moving from heated disagreements over export controls on models like Fable 5 and Mythos 5 toward creating shared technical benchmarks that could define how severely any future AI jailbreak is judged.
The White House and Anthropic are working together to develop a new benchmark for jailbreak resistance, and a new security framework to determine if models are safe to release that will guide future government intervention.
No criteria, scope, or timeline for the framework have surfaced, leaving open whether the benchmarks will weigh real-world fallout differently from raw capability exposure.
The original export restrictions remain active even as talks advance, so any relief for Anthropic users stays on hold until the new standards take clearer shape.
Positive users see the White House-Anthropic AI jailbreak framework as progress toward standards and safety gains, while negative users suspect it mainly benefits the company or will not help the public.
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This is important work and it'd be great to create a permanent place for it within the government. It could be in Commerce perhaps. A center of some kind. It'd definitely work on AI standards. And innovation!
NEW: White House and Anthropic are working to create a formal technical assessment framework that can quantify the severity of the jailbreak in question and create a standardized methodology for evaluating similar incidents in the future.
It’s the clearest sign yet that talks are moving forward and it reflects an understanding that no AI model can be completely immune to hacking.
Aim is to developing a common set of benchmarks that could be used to assess future jailbreaks, including the extent to which safeguards were bypassed, the capabilities exposed, and the practical consequences of the breach.
w/ @cheyennehaslett https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
'Was getting caught part of your plan?' Dario:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
Any standard that retroactively justifies the action against Fable will be a disaster for US AI. Will Anthropic be able to guide towards a real risk-based standard while also giving the WH a win?
White House talks with Anthropic shift to setting AI security rules http://dlvr.it/TT6DvJ
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
The White House and Anthropic are working together to develop a new benchmark for jailbreak resistance, and a new security framework to determine if models are safe to release that will guide future government intervention.
NEW: White House and Anthropic are working to create a formal technical assessment framework that can quantify the severity of the jailbreak in question and create a standardized methodology for evaluating similar incidents in the future.
It’s the clearest sign yet that talks are moving forward and it reflects an understanding that no AI model can be completely immune to hacking.
Aim is to developing a common set of benchmarks that could be used to assess future jailbreaks, including the extent to which safeguards were bypassed, the capabilities exposed, and the practical consequences of the breach.
w/ @cheyennehaslett https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
@AndrewCurran_ this seems like it should be pretty dramatically good news for safetyists who want government intervention?
@AndyMasley I wonder if things will be this stupid all the way up to AGI, and perhaps even past it
@timhwang good idea. Could be part of a comprehensive effort to establish nationally instituted standards and technology
@AndrewCurran_ 결국의 과도한 성능의 유출 리스크를 제한하고 고도의 기술은 내부적으로 활용하려는걸가요~? 그럼 기업 이익 성장에 제동이 걸리고, 전반적인 투자계획도 수정되는거 아닌가 불안~
@AndrewCurran_ I can't believe this whole thing is going to wrap up with...the release of a new benchmark.
@AndrewCurran_ For all that people flamed the rationalists for claiming that they had “systematized winning” they do, in fact, appear to be winning systematically
Total rat victory, 1000-year Lighthaven reich, etc etc
@AndrewCurran_ Translation: “we want to make sure no one but us can do squat…”
Second amendment.
Dario compared Ai to guns. Nicely done, sir.
Now AI is a right under both the first and second amendment. •
@AndrewCurran_ "crashing this industry. with no survivors."
@hamandcheese But isn't it so fun having an ad hoc approach based on who is winning the AI policy wars within the WH that day?
@AndrewCurran_ but benchmarks are hard to speedrun
@schulzb589 🫡
Dario just has to keep training until Z, Kimi or DS open sources something stronger than Fable. He'll have made two points:
1) These models are dangerous, the government recognizes it and panicked about it 2) China can do it and we have to stop them
By then it will probably be clear that there's no such thing as AI that can't be jailbroken, just as there's no such thing as software without security bugs.
It's an arms race and the only moat is speed and you need your frontier labs making huge moneybags or you fall behind.
@AndrewCurran_ Told ya is was a put on!
@SOPHONTSIMP @AndyMasley The theory that AI+human intelligence is conserved becomes more plausible every day...
@AndrewCurran_ So government is getting a free benchmark in exchange for releasing their model? Hmm…