Claude AI<\/a> remains available.<\/p>\nTom Tugendhat, the former Conservative security minister, warned that the ban exposed the UK\u2019s lack of sovereign control over cutting-edge AI.<\/p>\n
Writing on X, he said the ban was \u201cthe inevitable result of technology shaping warfare so that sovereignty is more about code than cannons\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Tugendhat told The Telegraph: \u201cAI is the new competition for sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrew Griffith, the UK shadow business secretary, called the move \u201ca disaster for Britain\u201d.<\/p>\n
Al Carns, who resigned last week as Armed Forces minister, wrote on X about Anthropic\u2019s model: \u201cBritish researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t an AI story. It\u2019s the story of every industry we used to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Trump administration issued an export control order on Friday night, Anthropic said. It came days after Dario Amodei, the company\u2019s chief executive, himself wrote that the US government should have the power to block the rollout of new AI models if they were deemed \u201cto present unacceptable risks\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Anthropic said the US government had been made aware of a method for bypassing safety controls, or \u201cjailbreaking\u201d, the models.<\/p>\n
However, the company downplayed the problem, saying it was only a \u201cspecific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities\u201d.<\/p>\n
Anthropic said it disagreed with the export controls but was complying for now.<\/p>\n
The company has taken the lead both in developing AI and in warning about its potential for harm.<\/p>\n
It has clashed with the White House over the potential use of its technology by the US military. At the same time, Mr Amodei has argued that the US must work to maintain its lead in AI over China.<\/p>\n
Mr Tugendhat said: \u201cIt\u2019s hardly surprising that the States is looking to control AI models. AI usage is what enabled the extraordinarily successful targeting in Iran over the recent months.\u201d<\/p>\n
The restriction of the model in Britain is a blow to the Government, which has sought to position the UK as a global leader in the technology by inviting tech companies, including Anthropic, to test their models here.<\/p>\n
Andrew Griffith, the shadow business secretary, told The Telegraph: \u201cThis is a disaster for Britain. Despite being our closest ally, no exemption for the UK has been procured.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Griffith added: \u201cWhile the Labour Government is pursuing a 1970s fantasy of a state-owned steel industry and trains, there\u2019s little to no action on sovereign capabilities in AI, in advanced manufacturing and in drones.\u201d<\/p>\n
The UK launched a sovereign tech fund<\/a> in April of this year with the aim of turning the nation into what Sir Keir Starmer calls an \u201cAI maker, not an AI taker\u201d. However, the fund has only a \u00a3500m pot, a sum too small to make an influence on a technology that requires tens of billions to develop.<\/p>\nResponding to the Anthropic news on X, Kanishka Narayan, Labour\u2019s tech minister, wrote: \u201cThe main lesson: as we debate the future of national security and technological sovereignty, access to AI capabilities is crucial. That\u2019s why this Government is the first to set up dedicated funding for our AI industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has shocked the world by banning the use of the most advanced AI by foreigners, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,84,141,5438,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-standard","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}