🔮 Exponential View #578: Fable & time to pause AI; iPhone vs babies; gene therapy, bad CEOs & Chinese Gen Z++

Exponential View · 1 month ago

Washington issued an export control order preventing Anthropic from offering its Fable and Mythos models to non-US citizens following researchers discovering a jailbreak vulnerability. The restriction followed a $5 billion Amazon investment in Anthropic and Amazon's concerns passed to the Commerce Department. Major AI labs are now signaling support for slowing frontier AI development, raising questions about whether they've identified genuine capability risks or are responding to external pressure.