{"slug": "anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-warned-mythos-posed-a-national-security-threat-just", "title": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned Mythos posed a national security threat. Washington just responded.", "summary": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that his company's Mythos AI model posed national security risks, prompting the Trump administration to order Anthropic to block foreign access to Mythos 5 and Fable 5. The Pentagon supported the move, sparking backlash from AI researchers who blamed Amodei's fear-mongering for the intervention.", "body_md": "Anthropic CEO [Dario Amodei](https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-warning-about-future-they-are-building-2026-6) is famous for warning that his own products pose a threat.\n\nIn an essay published this month, Amodei cautioned that AI's power \"has become undeniable.\" As an example, he pointed to Anthropic's latest model, Mythos, which he said presents \"very real risks\" to cybersecurity, the financial sector, critical infrastructure, and national security.\n\nHe then called for a more robust government intervention to address the risks.\n\nOn Friday, his warnings appeared to backfire when the US government suddenly intervened.\n\n[Anthropic cut off access](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-disable-mythos-fable-us-export-control-national-security-2026-6) to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 after it said the Trump administration ordered it to block foreign access to the models. The Pentagon's chief information officer expressed support for the move in an X post, writing, \"Some things are simply more important than revenue cycles, clickbait, and pre-IPO valuation.\"\n\nThe surprise development [sent the tech industry](https://www.businessinsider.com/reaction-to-trump-controls-on-anthropic-fable-and-mythos-2026-6) into a tizzy.\n\nGary Marcus, the AI researcher and notorious skeptic, called the Trump administration's move \"wildly overdramatic and also counterproductive.\"\n\nYann LeCunn, who is considered one of the godfathers of AI, blamed Amodei: \"Dario Amodei's ridiculous fear mongering about Mythos/Fable (and AI in general) finally pays off,\" he wrote on X. \"One reaps what one sows.\"\n\nAmodei has long sought to position himself as the AI industry's adult in the room. Once an integral researcher at OpenAI, [he left the company](https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-dario-amodei-anthropic-openai-rivalry-timeline-2026-2) to start Anthropic over concerns that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman prioritized releasing products over ensuring their safety.\n\nHe has since issued a stream of statements that the things he is building and releasing to the general public, alongside OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and others, could upend life as we know it — for good as well as bad.\n\nAmodei once warned that [AI would eliminate](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-warning-ai-could-eliminate-jobs-2025-5) half of entry-level white-collar jobs and cause unemployment to soar to levels not seen since the COVID-19 pandemic, and before that, the Great Recession in 2008.\n\nWhile Amodei has softened his tone on jobs in recent weeks as his company gears up to go public, he and his company have not held back on other safety concerns.\n\n\"The cyber risks that Mythos-class models present will not be the last that we must face,\" he wrote in his June essay. \"I believe that biological risks may soon follow, and that serious AI autonomy risks may not be far behind.\"\n\nHe wrote that concerns by lawmakers were out of step with AI's rapid progress.\n\nEarlier this month, his company called for a temporary halt to the development of frontier AI models in a paper cautioning that the latest models are getting closer to improving themselves, which it said, \"might increase the risks of humans losing control over AI systems.\"\n\n\"We believe it would be good for the world to have the *option* to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,\" Anthropic wrote.\n\nThat pause arrived on Friday, at least for Anthropic.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-warned-mythos-posed-a-national-security-threat-just", "canonical_source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/dario-amodei-ai-warnings-mythos-fable-blocked-2026-6", "published_at": "2026-06-13 16:31:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-13 16:45:58.215362+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "Mythos", "Fable", "Trump administration", "Pentagon", "Gary Marcus", "Yann LeCunn"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-warned-mythos-posed-a-national-security-threat-just", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-warned-mythos-posed-a-national-security-threat-just.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-warned-mythos-posed-a-national-security-threat-just.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-warned-mythos-posed-a-national-security-threat-just.jsonld"}}