Are we moving from chip export controls to model access controls?

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Summary

Discusses the potential shift from hardware-based export controls to restrictions on access to pre-trained AI models, changing the question from who can develop frontier AI to who is allowed to use it.

The whole Anthropic and Fable-Mythos situation has led me to wonder more and more whether we are entering a new phase of AI regulation. Until now, most geopolitical AI control has focused on hardware. Essentially, the question was: Who can develop frontier AI? But as governments begin to restrict access to pre-trained breakthrough models, I believe the question shifts fundamentally. Are we now entering a phase of “Who is allowed to *use* the most powerful AI systems?”
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