# ai-policy

Word from Washington that officials are weighing a ban on US companies using Chinese open weights models. A batch of tech companies signed an open letter backing open weights, and some accused Anthropic of pushing a ban to protect its own business. Dario Amodei denies it, and lays out the three things he actually supports: control the chips, stop industrial-scale distillation, and mandate testing for every model powerful enough to matter. The deepest passage is buried in footnote five — what has kept humanity safe so far may not be the defenders.

Demis Hassabis argues that AGI may be only a few years away, leaving a narrow chance to set shared thresholds for the most dangerous models. Rules that are too strict may leave safe but useless systems; rules that are too loose may let someone else deploy genuinely dangerous capabilities.

Citing national security, the US government ordered Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national — even its own staff — so Anthropic had to disable both models for everyone. The alleged 'jailbreak'? Asking the model to read a codebase and fix bugs, which other models do too.

Anthropic lays out two 2028 scenarios for AI leadership: the US and its allies preserve their compute and model lead, or a CCP-controlled AI ecosystem catches up near the frontier. The essay centers on compute, export controls, model distillation, and whether democracies can set the rules first.

Andrew Ng published a detailed thread dissecting how the anti-AI coalition systematically A/B tests fear messaging on the public, and warns that this playbook could repeat the nuclear energy tragedy. Includes analysis of the White House's new AI legislative framework.

White House EO mandates 180-day AI Action Plan, shifting US strategy from risk-first to competition-first. Agencies to revise policies impeding competitiveness, re-centering on practical AI progress over hypothetical risks.