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A Kill Switch for Frontier AI | Lawfare

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The government is using export control law to force Anthropic to cut access to its most powerful models. The legal authority is plausible but the facts remain murky.

Alan Z. Rozenshtein @ARozenshtein alanrozenshtein.com Meet The Authors Subscribe to Lawfare On Friday, June 12, at 5:21 p.m. Eastern Time, Anthropic received a letter from the U.S. Commerce Department. Citing national-security authorities, the government ordered the company, as Anthropic describes it , "to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees." Because Anthropic cannot reliably sort its users by nationality, the practical effect was a global kill switch: Within hours, the

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