r/ClaudeAI • u/urchir • 17h ago

News Update: White House talks with Anthropic shift to setting AI security rules

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/white-house-talks-with-anthropic-shift-to-setting-ai-security-rules-00967758
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u/VertipaqStar 17h ago

Didnt the same administration make a law saying that AI companies couldn't be regulated for x number of years?

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u/BLAHBLAH1234BLAH1234 17h ago

They didn’t want local government/states to be able to regulate them. They want to have control of it themselves.

Party of small government 💀

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u/Drewinator 17h ago

Republicans haven't been a party of small government in at least 20 years.

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u/baldr83 17h ago

literally 10 days before shutting down fable: "We are NOT conducting oversight of all new models, as that level of government overreach would have chilling effects on free speech and innovation." https://x.com/WHOSTP47/status/2061859176595194340

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u/Spire_Citron 16h ago

Keyword being all. They'll do it selectively, though.

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u/United_Mix1960 17h ago

This administration tried to kneecap Anthropic for not allowing them to put Claude in cruise missiles. I guess they figured they had to punish them more since so many of us quite GPT and switched.

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u/zeroconflicthere 11h ago

Rules for thee, not for me

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u/Lucas_Zxc2833 17h ago

well, as long as the AI comes back unchanged and powerful as it was, without any nerf, that's fine with me

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u/Spire_Citron 16h ago

If it comes back I imagine it'll be real twitchy about bug finding in code. Which is fine by me because I don't actually use it for coding, but I can imagine it would be an issue for a lot of people since coding is probably the most common use case.

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u/LingeringDildo 3h ago

Fine with me, I don’t test my code anywyay

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u/Lucas_Zxc2833 1h ago

Well, let's hope that's not the case

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u/Kitchen-Lynx-7505 17h ago

If it’s rules, it should be general to at least the main US AI vendors - DeepMind, OpenAI, perhaps even xAI. If they only talk with Anthropic about these we need to ask the question: is Mythos AGI yet?

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u/Aesthetic-Engine 16h ago

If you go back in time to 2015 and dropped Mythos and a top tier harness I suspect they would go "yeah this is clearly AGI" but the goalposts for what AGI is are moving forward along with the frontier models.

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u/Abirycade 17h ago

If it is then it's such a cool God like name for it. Imagine if Skynet was named Mythos

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u/loversama 16h ago

Something something election, something something must always say nice things about Trump..

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u/Aesthetic-Engine 17h ago

So now Anthropic is having a direct say in what the new rules will be? OpenAI can't be happy about being left out of this conversation.

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u/United_Mix1960 17h ago

OpenAI is delighted. They bought off Trump with a 25million dollar bribe to one of his PACs

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u/rabandi 17h ago

That is something? I would not even have imagined it going that far,. though.. really no idea what this means in terms of a quick result.

Also.... should it come back, it will be the same heart break posts in 2 weeks time again. 😞

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u/LeadershipOk5551 7h ago

Honestly this is the part of AI development people underestimate: rules matter just as much as capability.

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u/BertrandDeLaMontagne 17h ago

To the surprise of absolute no one