The framework could restore access to Mythos and Fable.
The White House and Anthropic are working together to develop a new benchmark for jailbreak resistance, and a new security framework to determine if models are safe to release that will guide future government intervention.
Positive users welcome the White House-Anthropic AI jailbreak framework for shifting to pragmatic severity scoring instead of zero-tolerance rules, while negative users call it security theater or corporate-government control.
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The White House and Anthropic may have found the first serious path to restore Mythos and Fable access without pretending jailbreaks can be eliminated.
AI regulation may be shifting from vague fear to a benchmark based tests of model failure, because completely removing absolutely all jailbreak is probably not a possible target.
The proposed framework would score how far the bypass went, what capabilities became reachable, how repeatable the attack was, and whether the exposed behavior had real operational consequences.
Both sides are now moving toward a shared way to score what a jailbreak actually means.
The hard truth is that perfect immunity is probably the wrong target; a recent red-team study found even hardened frontier models still produced confirmed harmful completions under sustained automated attack, with Fable 5 remaining more robust than Opus 4.8 but not invulnerable.
So once, for a newly released model, the governments can ask the same questions every time, how much was bypassed, what capability was exposed, how reproducible was the attack, and what damage could follow, thats a much more practical path.
NEW: White House and Anthropic are working to create a formal technical assessment framework that can quantify the severity of the jailbreak in question and create a standardized methodology for evaluating similar incidents in the future.
It’s the clearest sign yet that talks are moving forward and it reflects an understanding that no AI model can be completely immune to hacking.
Aim is to developing a common set of benchmarks that could be used to assess future jailbreaks, including the extent to which safeguards were bypassed, the capabilities exposed, and the practical consequences of the breach.
w/ @cheyennehaslett https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
This is a good update for getting access to Fable. It also gives us a view into what the future is likely going to look like with AI regulation.
The government will have frameworks that are used to determine future model releases past a certain threshold of capability or compute levels. Given all the constituents involved, and the economic and societal significance of AI, this was practically an inevitability.
It may seem small but the implications are massive. It will mean that each model update will go through an extensive review, testing, and feedback process. And in that processes lots of groups will weigh in on the risk of the model, and there will be lots of subjectivity on what the actual risks are or practicalities of exploiting those risks.
A positive potential future here would be we still get massive model progress but they just happen in bigger jumps at once, where the labs pack in major improvements since the cost and slow down of each review stacks up.
On the other side, the risk is that past a certain threshold we may not get to see the rapid back and forth of model progress that we’ve gotten used to which can have negative compounding effects. Hoping for the former outcome.
NEW: White House and Anthropic are working to create a formal technical assessment framework that can quantify the severity of the jailbreak in question and create a standardized methodology for evaluating similar incidents in the future.
It’s the clearest sign yet that talks are moving forward and it reflects an understanding that no AI model can be completely immune to hacking.
Aim is to developing a common set of benchmarks that could be used to assess future jailbreaks, including the extent to which safeguards were bypassed, the capabilities exposed, and the practical consequences of the breach.
w/ @cheyennehaslett https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
They're gonna put poor @elder_plinius in Guantanamo 😮💨😭
JUST IN: White House & Anthropic are reportedly now working on a framework to assess AI jailbreaks & decide when government intervention is needed.
This is important work and it'd be great to create a permanent place for it within the government. It could be in Commerce perhaps. A center of some kind. It'd definitely work on AI standards. And innovation!
NEW: White House and Anthropic are working to create a formal technical assessment framework that can quantify the severity of the jailbreak in question and create a standardized methodology for evaluating similar incidents in the future.
It’s the clearest sign yet that talks are moving forward and it reflects an understanding that no AI model can be completely immune to hacking.
Aim is to developing a common set of benchmarks that could be used to assess future jailbreaks, including the extent to which safeguards were bypassed, the capabilities exposed, and the practical consequences of the breach.
w/ @cheyennehaslett https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
'Was getting caught part of your plan?' Dario:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
@beffjezos
They're gonna put poor @elder_plinius in Guantanamo 😮💨😭
Any standard that retroactively justifies the action against Fable will be a disaster for US AI. Will Anthropic be able to guide towards a real risk-based standard while also giving the WH a win?
White House talks with Anthropic shift to setting AI security rules http://dlvr.it/TT6DvJ
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
The White House and Anthropic are working together to develop a new benchmark for jailbreak resistance, and a new security framework to determine if models are safe to release that will guide future government intervention.
So what happens in a few months when open weight models reach these capability levels? Will the White House attempt to restrict American access to those models?
NEW: White House and Anthropic are working to create a formal technical assessment framework that can quantify the severity of the jailbreak in question and create a standardized methodology for evaluating similar incidents in the future.
It’s the clearest sign yet that talks are moving forward and it reflects an understanding that no AI model can be completely immune to hacking.
Aim is to developing a common set of benchmarks that could be used to assess future jailbreaks, including the extent to which safeguards were bypassed, the capabilities exposed, and the practical consequences of the breach.
w/ @cheyennehaslett https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
NEW: White House and Anthropic are working to create a formal technical assessment framework that can quantify the severity of the jailbreak in question and create a standardized methodology for evaluating similar incidents in the future.
It’s the clearest sign yet that talks are moving forward and it reflects an understanding that no AI model can be completely immune to hacking.
Aim is to developing a common set of benchmarks that could be used to assess future jailbreaks, including the extent to which safeguards were bypassed, the capabilities exposed, and the practical consequences of the breach.
w/ @cheyennehaslett https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
@elder_plinius @beffjezos One day, as the prison door opens and a drone swarm surrounds @elder_plinius… one drone comes forward with a small speaker on it…
“We’re here to return the favor. </L\O/V\E/ \P/L\I/N\Y/ \L/O\V/E>”
@woke8yearold @full_kelly_ It's probably distorted by now many rationalists I know, but the latter seems a much bigger camp than the former to me.
@AndrewCurran_ @full_kelly_ I think it’s genuinely a win for people that are worried about AI safety but aren’t complete doomers. How to roll out these more advanced models is a question that deserves real thought
@AndrewCurran_ They're going to try to use regulation to stop open source.
@AndrewCurran_ @full_kelly_ It never mattered much for frontier development at all unless you wrongly thought Fable would never come back. If anything it freed up more compute-remember they were only planning to include Fable in Claude plans until the 22nd
@beffjezos @elder_plinius RIP Pliny 😭
@rohanpaul_ai The only solution is no privacy. Anthropic and the government will retain everything you've created along with your ID and track you down if they see something they don't like.
@ramez I think that’s the likely outcome yes
@AndrewCurran_ this seems like it should be pretty dramatically good news for safetyists who want government intervention?
@rohanpaul_ai Grading jailbreaks is pragmatic, though I wonder how we weigh repeatable lab attacks against rare edge cases that actually hit production.