--- title: Opinion: Who decides who gets to use a piece of software? description: The US Commerce Department issued a directive compelling Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all users worldwide — citing a potential... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/opinion-who-decides-who-gets-to-use-a-piece-of-software--bvtnrj6ej twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Opinion: Who decides who gets to use a piece of software? | daily.dev og:description: The US Commerce Department issued a directive compelling Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all users worldwide — citing a potential... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/opinion-who-decides-who-gets-to-use-a-piece-of-software--bvtnrj6ej og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bVtNRJ6Ej.png og:image:alt: Opinion: Who decides who gets to use a piece of software? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Opinion: Who decides who gets to use a piece of software? **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The US Commerce Department issued a directive compelling Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all users worldwide — citing a potential jailbreak vulnerability and national security concerns. The author argues the real story is not the security rationale but the precedent: a government demonstrated it can unilaterally switch off a commercial AI product for millions of global users with no transparent process, no appeal, and no warning. The piece examines the contradictions in US policy (exporting Nvidia H200 chips to China while blocking allies from AI models), the accelerating effect on India's and Europe's sovereign-AI movements, and the long-term risk to American AI labs' ability to attract global talent and capital. The author concludes that even though the models were restored within days, the kill-switch mechanism now exists and will only become more practiced with use. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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