The United States treats artificial intelligence like physical weaponry
By banning the export of specific software algorithms, the government has shifted its focus from restricting hardware to controlling the digital code itself.
For decades, international trade restrictions in the technology sector focused almost exclusively on physical hardware. To slow the military progress of rivals, the U.S. Department of Commerce limited the sale of high-performance computing chips used to train complex systems. This strategy changed when the government placed specific software models, Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, under direct export control.
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