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Who should get an AI kill switch?
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Jun 17, 2026

Who should get an AI kill switch?

Anthropic has withdrawn access to its powerful cybersecurity AI models Mythos 5 and Fable 5, citing national security concerns. Raffi Krikorian, chief technology officer at Mozilla, questions who gets to flip that AI “kill switch” in the first place.

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Last week, the Trump Administration ordered Anthropic to cut off access to its most advanced AI models — Mythos 5 and the pared-down public version, Fable 5 — from foreign nationals due to reported security weaknesses in Fable's safeguards.

In response, Anthropic shut them down for everyone including the handful of companies that had been granted access to Mythos.

One of those companies is Mozilla, which said Mythos identified about 270 bugs in its Firefox browser that had slipped through previous reviews.

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Mozilla chief technology officer Raffi Krikorian about the government essentially hitting a kill switch on the system.

More on this

What to know about the Anthropic models takedown - from The Hill

Mythos and Fable can make us all safer. Shutting them down is reckless - from the Transformer Substack

Federal spending on Y2K reaches $8.38 billion - from CNET

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