New Delhi, June 14 -- Dario Amodei spent months sounding the alarm about the dangers of Anthropic's most powerful AI. Then Washington appeared to listen, in a way he almost certainly did not intend.

When Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei published an essay this month warning that artificial intelligence's power "has become undeniable," he was continuing a well-established pattern.

Amodei had, after all, built an entire company on the premise that AI needed a responsible adult in charge. What he did not anticipate was that his own words may have contributed to a regulatory hammer falling directly on his products.

On Friday (June 12), Anthropic confirmed it had cut off foreign access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models following a di...