In an interview hours before the U.S. government issued a directive to disable Anthropic’s newest AI model, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer told Forbes about the tradeoffs of releasing such a powerful tool.

The AI company’s newest public model was met with strong backlash over stringent safety rules and refusals to help users, though others described the measures as “reasonable.”

Anthropic's Fable AI was shut down following a U.S. government directive limiting access to U.S. nationals, exposing growing tensions between AI safety and regulation.