The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

To quote Hendrix, “the climate is one of a cloud of suspicion that senior officials are picking favorites based on personal and political factors.” The aftermath is that the government has set a dangerous precedent about how much control it intends to wield over the release of American-made software.

This time the government took issue with Anthropic; tomorrow it could be with anyone else.