IN BANNING foreigners from using Mythos 5 and Fable 5, Anthropic’s most powerful models, America’s government may simply have been seeking to punish the firm by the readiest means available. But whatever its intentions, it has demonstrated the difficulty of curbing access to potent(强大的，有影响力的) technology.
通过禁止外国人使用Anthropic最强大的模型Mythos 5和Fable 5，美国政府可能只是想用最现成的手段来惩罚该公司。但无论其意图如何，此举都展示了限制强大技术可及性的困难。
The ban has echoes of America’s decision to restrict public-key cryptography, a technology used to secure digital communications, from the 1970s to the 1990s. Back then the government argued that cryptography was akin to(类似于，近似于) a munition(弹药，军火); one developer was investigated by the FBI for violating the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Civil-liberties advocates eventually prevailed, securing the right to use, sell and export most encryption systems.
这一禁令令人回想起美国从20世纪70年代到90年代限制公钥加密（一种用于保护数字通信的技术）的决定。当时政府认为加密类似于军火；一名开发者因违反《国际武器贸易条例》而受到FBI调查。公民自由倡导者最终获胜，争取到了使用、销售和出口大多数加密系统的权利。
Encryption was a potent technology, but narrow in its application. AI is far more powerful and versatile(多功能的，通用的). On June 11th Mark Warner, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that General Joshua Rudd, who leads the National Security Agency and the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, had told him that Mythos “broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours”.(领导国家安全局和五角大楼网络司令部的约书亚·拉德将军告诉他，Mythos“突破了我们几乎所有的机密系统，不是几周，而是几个小时”。)
加密技术曾是一种强大的技术，但应用领域狭窄。AI则强大得多且用途广泛。6月11日，参议院情报委员会副主席马克·华纳表示，领导国家安全局和五角大楼网络司令部的约书亚·拉德将军告诉他，Mythos“突破了我们几乎所有的机密系统，不是几周，而是几个小时”。
Render unto Caesar
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