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People worried about catastrophic effects of AI\u2014broadly labeled \u201cdoomers\u201d\u2014have said for years that the technology poses a threat to humanity and published proposals for how the government should intervene in its development. The doomers just got their government intervention\u2014not over a bioweapon or rogue AI, but in response to an AI model that\u2019s basically just really good at coding. And the result so far looks less like a safety plan than like a superficial reaction.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s plenty to dissect about what happened in those few days that led to such drastic action from the government, and it\u2019s notable that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was the one who told government officials that Fable would be dangerous (Amazon is both invested in Anthropic and building its own competing AI models). It’s also possible this will be a short-lived ban from the government that doesn\u2019t survive legal scrutiny (it\u2019s not clear that Anthropic\u2019s offering access to Fable really counts as \u201cexporting\u201d it, for example).\u00a0<\/p>\n
But there are ripple effects happening already.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For one, this is making a whole lot of people not want to rely on American AI companies. TheFrench politician Bruno Retailleau described it as a \u201cwake-up call\u201d that should motivate Europe to build more AI. But any vision of turning Paris into Silicon Valley\u2014touted by many other European leaders following the shutdown of Anthropic\u2019s models\u2014is complicated by one big thing: China.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Open-source models from China are very capable and incredibly cheap, and they can be downloaded to run on anyone\u2019s servers with no rules or guardrails. (This makes them attractive to companies that don\u2019t want access turned off on the basis of a decision from the White House\u2014but equally attractive to cybercriminals, the type that Anthropic hoped to fend off by building safety guardrails into its models.)\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s possible that companies, including those in the US and Europe, will decide that working with Chinese models is just easier, as the skyrocketing of shares in the Chinese startup Zhipu suggests. Playing this forward, is it possible the government\u2019s next drastic decision will be to say that US companies using models from China pose a threat to national security? I wouldn\u2019t write it off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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