@levie: Things seem to be ending up in a better spot with Fable, and presumably GPT-5.6 next. What we have now is the initial p…
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Discusses the evolving safety review process for frontier AI models, referencing Claude Fable 5's re-release and the need for a shared industry framework to assess jailbreaks, while expressing cautious optimism about the balance between safety and innovation.
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Things seem to be ending up in a better spot with Fable, and presumably GPT-5.6 next. What we have now is the initial precedent for what frontier model releases (or at least those that have significant coding and cyber capabilities) could look like going forward. This would presumably apply to bio and other categories of risk that have been identified by AI safety groups.
From the Anthropic post:
“3. A shared industry framework. Although we have reached a constructive resolution, these events have made clear that the industry needs a consistent way to assess and fix potential “jailbreaks” of AI models (techniques that bypass a model’s safeguards).2 A shared standard for judging the severity of a given jailbreak would help AI developers triage new findings as they arise, launch highly-capable models with greater safety, and communicate the level of risk consistently to government and industry partners. Together with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and other Glasswing partners, we’ve started to develop such a framework, and we outline it below.
- Deeper government collaboration. We’re also strengthening our level of collaboration with the US government on new pre-release testing, information sharing, and research collaboration. We describe this deeper collaboration in the final section.”
It’s been a messy process to get here, but at least there’s some semblance of a framework that could be practical. The only note of caution here would be that there’s a lot of subjectivity that goes into various risks and their actual levels of exploitability in practice. We’re likely going to be living with a framework that requires heavy judgment and back and forth between labs and the government for major releases.
The best we can hope for is that this is a relatively efficient process, and hopefully has ways of being sped up for incremental version updates in models. It would be a bad outcome if every release after this level of threshold of capability required the same review process, and we don’t get the same rate of breakthroughs we’ve been seeing.
Anthropic (@AnthropicAI): Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow.
After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we’re redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding
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