Bosses at the artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic are set to meet senior White House officials amid fresh national security concerns over the company's latest release.
The meeting is set to take place on Monday in Washington DC between executives at Anthropic. the US Department of Commerce, a government department led by Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to two people familiar with the matter.
It comes after Anthropicblocked all public access to the recent release of its latest AI tool on Friday. which it has previously said is "too powerful".
The firm made the decision after the US governmentprohibitedAnthropic from allowing any foreign national access to the technology.
The AI tool at issue is named Fable 5 or Mythos 5. Fable 5 is a version of the tool with extra safeguards made available to the public, while Mythos 5 has different controls. is only available to a select group of organisations.
Both represent a new version of Claude Mythos, an Anthropic AI model that caused a stir when the company in April initially gave preview. testing access to a relatively small number of organizations, including departments within the US government.
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is expected at the meeting with secretary Lutnick, a source said.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment. Representatives of Commerce and Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment.
By making a version of Mythos available to the public, Anthropic said last week that doing so "comes with risks".
"Fable's capabilities exceed those of any model we've ever made generally available", it added.
Within days of the release. the US government said it had "become aware" of a potential "jailbreak," or an opening for someone to make an AI tool do something that it was not intended or designed to do.
Anthropic said on Friday that it had only received "verbal evidence" of the purported jailbreak vulnerability.
The split between Anthropic. the government is the latest this year, which has seenAnthropic suethe US Department of Defense over a fight about how its models can be used.
However. tensions appeared to be on the wane a few weeks ago as the company met senior White House officials in what was described asa "productive" meeting.
The Monday meeting with Department for Commerce is expected to include more documentation of the alleged issue. according to one of the people familiar.
It is unclear, however, if after the meeting Anthropic will be able to make Fable 5. Mythos 5 accessible again.
Dozens of tech leaders. executives in the cyber security space have called on the US government to allow Anthropic to release the models to the public.
Inan open letter, security staff from Nvidia, Zoom, Mercedes-Benz, as well as former security staff for the US government. Google, urged Lutnick to lift the controls put in place on Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
They also asked that the government "commit to an open, scientific. transparent process of handling AI risk assessments in the future".
The White House has signaled a relativelyhands off approachto regulating AI, and even expressed interest infinancially benefitting from it.
Yet the latest action against Anthropic has caused some concern among AI developers and security experts.
"To pull the best capabilities away from defenders without a good reason when our adversaries are rapidly advancing is dangerous," the signatories added.
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