Apropos the current US government/Claude AI spat. Here is a model for AI-driven social change and the many steps slowing down that change, not least which government intervention to restrain change to keep the status quo. osf.io/preprints/so...
One reading of the US governmentâs restriction on foreign-national access to Claude's Fable 5 is that public focusing events and risk-centered discourse on AI create opportunities for restrictive regulation. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
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Andreas Jungherr
Turns out how you talk about AI and what events you foreground matters for broad access to AI capabilities and opportunities for diffusion. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (with @adrauc.bsky.social and @kunkakom.bsky.social).
Andreas Jungherr
We found the same pattern in our work on AI use in politics. We found that information about AI-enabled disinformation raised people's support for an immediate stop of all AI development.
