A powerful AI tool was taken away from Australia. This Democrat wants to change that

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A leading Democrat says Five Eyes intelligence partners like Australia should not be denied access to the most powerful AI models.

Australia should be given priority access to the most capable artificial intelligence tools developed in the US and the Trump administration was wrong to temporarily withhold access to the powerful Claude Mythos tool.

That’s the view of Lori Trahan, the Democratic congresswoman for Massachusetts, helping to lead a push for more stringent regulation of AI in the US.

She believes that as part of the push for better “rules of the road” to ensure the technology is properly controlled, the US should also foster more open collaboration with its Five Eyes intelligence partners, particularly Australia and the UK.

“Innovation and safety are not at odds with each other, and I think we should just remind ourselves that when we set those standards high, we bring the rest of the world with us. But that’s also incumbent on our collaboration with our allies,” she said.

In April, Anthropic released its Claude Mythos AI model, which is particularly skillful at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in IT systems. Australian government security agencies and even Australian citizens working on AI in the US – along with all other foreign nationals – were initially barred from working with Mythos after a Trump administration edict, which was partly wound back after a couple of months.

Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI chatbot and is on the verge of a record $USD1.4 trillion initial public offer, has heavily restricted access to Mythos to financial institutions, major tech companies and cloud services providers like Amazon.

Trahan, who is a member of Congress’ House Committee on Energy and Commerce, told this masthead the technology should not have been withheld from Five Eyes intelligence partners.

“We rely on those relationships with our allies, and so I think that there’s a collaboration that we need to strike. In fact, we should have a Western stack [a collection of software tools] that is unified and fostering collaboration,” she said.

Speaking at the Takeoff AI conference in Washington…

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