Cal Newport

They want it to be about GPT-5-5.

They want it to be about these massive models and finding one way or the other to justify them.

That's why they have to constantly put out these articles of like this thing is a national security threat.

This thing is going to improve itself until we lose control.

They have to make it seem like only these frontier models that only they have the capital to make are the only things that are smart enough to be useful, but they're not.

We could have much narrower tools that do useful stuff and they're justified and they're affordable and they're not at all something we worry about.

That's the future we need and a real consistent and transparent regulatory regime that says you have to convince us your model is safe before we release it.

You don't get to just build whatever you want.

You don't get to just say whatever you want about a model.

The time has come from that.

The damages being caused right now psychologically have been massive.

The damages economically that are going to happen

If both OpenAI and Anthropic have big IPOs and then the bottom drops out on this, the impact that's going to have on 401 s that are holding index funds,

is also going to be calamitous.

This is time for the government to stand in, but they have to do it with more transparency and honesty than I don't know if the Trump administration is even capable of doing.

But that is how I feel about it.

All right, so there's a lot of things going on in this story.

Is the Trump administration handling this in a way that's haphazard at best and corrupt at worst?

Probably.

Is Fable 5 a unique danger?