Who Decides When AI Is Too Dangerous?
Original: Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
Decoder podcast debates AI safety governance after Anthropic's Fable 5 launch collides with Trump-era Pentagon regulation.
The Verge's Decoder podcast hosts senior AI reporter Hayden Field to dissect a turbulent news cycle combining Anthropic's new Fable 5 model, a reported "Mythos ban," and the Trump administration's Pentagon AI policy. The episode pivots on a fundamental governance question: who holds legitimate authority to judge when an AI system is too dangerous to deploy or use? The discussion lands at the intersection of corporate self-regulation, executive-branch intervention, and military AI procurement.
In this episode of The Verge's Decoder podcast, host Nilay Patel sits down with Hayden Field, The Verge's senior AI reporter, to make sense of what Field describes as a particularly intense news weekend — one that put Anthropic, the Trump administration, and Anthropic's newly released frontier model, Fable 5, into uncomfortable proximity.
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