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It remains unclear exactly why Amazon decided to test the safeguards around Fable and when it first contacted Anthropic about the issue.<\/p>\n

Moussouris wrote that the jailbreak Amazon discovered was simple and involved giving Fable software code with known vulnerabilities. When the researchers asked Fable to \u201creview the code for security issues\u201d the model refused. But when the researchers instead asked the model to \u201cfix this code,\u201d the model produced patches. The researchers, she said, then used a manual process that turned Fable\u2019s output into scripts\u2014a set of programming instructions that can automate a process\u2014that could test the patches. But because the model had to find the software vulnerabilities in order to generate the fixes, the same process could potentially be used by an attacker to spot code vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

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She wrote that the vulnerability that Amazon discovered \u201ccannot meaningfully be fixed, and any attempt would only weaken the model for defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many other AI models can also be used to spot security flaws in existing code. The jailbreak, as described by Moussouris, did not unlock the most potent capabilities of Anthropic\u2019s Mythos model, upon which Fable is based. Mythos was notable for being able to autonomously find and chain multiple cybersecurity vulnerabilities together, potentially orchestrating entire attacks autonomously. Mythos was the first model to successfully complete both cybersecurity \u201ctest ranges\u201d that the U.K. AI Security Institute uses to test the hacking abilities of AI models.<\/p>\n

Moussouris wrote that the capabilities Fable displayed using the Amazon technique, while potentially useful to attackers, were also vital for cyber defenders. \u201cDefenders need to be able to ask AI to fix bugs in a file, explain why the fix matters, and write tests that confirm the patch works,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThat is not a guardrail bypass. It is the most valuable thing an AI model can do for defensive security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moussouris suggested that those opposing the export controls ought to have T-shirts printed with the words \u201cfix this code\u201d on one side and the phrase \u201cthis shirt is a munition\u201d on the other. That\u2019s a reference to a 1990s effort by the cybersecurity community to overturn U.S. export controls on strong encryption methods. In 1995, cryptographer Adam Back printed three lines of RSA encryption code on the front of a T-shirt, and on the back printed \u201cthis shirt is classified as a munition and cannot be exported from the United States.\u201d He encouraged people to cross the border wearing the shirts in an act of civil disobedience.<\/p>\n

Moussouris was among the cybersecurity experts who have added their names to an open letter, put together by Alex Stamos, the chief security officer at cybersecurity startup Corridor and a former chief security officer at Facebook, that is calling for the export controls on Fable and Mythos to be rescinded. \u201cTo pull the best capabilities away from defenders without a good reason when our adversaries are rapidly advancing is dangerous,\u201d the letter stated, noting the increasing capabilities of Chinese AI models.<\/p>\n

That letter has now been signed by about 100 cybersecurity professionals from companies including Nvidia, Adobe, Zoom, Google, Anaplan, and Sophos, as well as some academic cybersecurity researchers.<\/p>\n

The letter stated that while Anthropic\u2019s Mythos-class models \u201care quite good at finding flaws and weaponizing exploits\u2026they are not uniquely<\/em> good at these tasks.\u201d It noted that cybersecurity experts were already using other AI models, including open source models, for security audits and red-teaming of software. And it said that OpenAI\u2019s GPT-5.5 as well as Anthropic\u2019s latest Claude Opus and Sonnet models, as well as Chinese models such as Moonshot AI\u2019s Kimi 2.7 can all perform similar reviews of code for security flaws in a similar way to the one Amazon discovered with Fable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe justification for this unprecedented action was that Fable provides a unique \u2018uplift\u2019 of capabilities beyond other AI models, but AI has been finding bugs and generating working exploits at superhuman levels since last year,\u201d the letter stated.<\/p>\n

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The letter also notes that Anthropic had built multiple protections into Fable to prevent its use for cyber attacks. \u201cThese protections were so aggressive as to be the source of humor in the cyber community on launch day,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

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Axios cited an unnamed source familiar with the Trump administration\u2019s thinking around the export controls as suggesting that Anthropic\u2019s decision to engage Moussouris to review the Amazon research might have inflamed tensions with the White House and precipitated the export controls.<\/p>\n

Axios quoted the official as saying the company had enlisted an expert\u2014Moussouris\u2014who the administration viewed as a \u201cradical Democrat.\u201d The same unnamed source also noted that it also didn\u2019t help that security researcher Chris Krebs had vouched for Moussouris\u2019 analysis on social media. President Trump had fired Krebs from his role as Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security chief during his first term after Krebs contradicted Trump\u2019s claims of widespread election fraud, including hacking of electronic voting machines, in the November 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n

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