Anthropic’s Fable 5 Safeguards Were Always A ‘Judgement Call’

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Hours before the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to disable its newest AI model, the company's Chief Commercial Officer sat down with Forbes to defend Fable 5's release. The executive framed the decision as an inherent tradeoff: powerful tools always involve risk, and safety measures are ultimately judgment calls rather than absolute guarantees. The timing of the interview, coming just before a federal directive, underscores the tension between AI companies' commercial ambitions and government oversight. Anthropic positioned itself as transparent about the risks, even as regulators moved to pull the plug.