White House, Anthropic Set AI Security Rules After Export Controls

The White House and Anthropic are working on a framework that would assess the severity of security flaws in new AI models and guide potential government intervention, POLITICO reported. The talks shift the focus from export controls on Fable 5 to managing security risks in the models themselves.

The framework would classify vulnerabilities by severity and determine when the government steps in. The discussions follow a period where export restrictions on Fable 5, a model Anthropic developed, dominated the policy conversation. Now the emphasis is on what happens after a model is built – how to evaluate and respond to the risks it poses.

Anthropic has pushed for clear rules on when the government can intervene, according to people familiar with the talks. The company wants predictability: a set of criteria that trigger a response, not ad hoc decisions after a model is released. The White House has signaled openness to a structured approach but has not committed to specific thresholds.