AI GETS WEAPONIZED | A WORLD IN DISORDER FACES AI BANS
Global Affairs Session 54 16 June 2026 AI GETS WEAPONIZED America bans Anthropic's frontier AI models In June 2026, the United States banned foreign access to Anthropic's most advanced models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, treating frontier AI as strategic technology on par with chips, weapons systems and encryption. The move marks a shift from controlling hardware to controlling model capability itself — and reveals how thoroughly artificial intelligence has become entangled with geopolitics, national security, and the race for sovereign AI capability, as the world risks splintering into competing AI blocs.