WASHINGTON—On July 1, Anthropic restored global access to its Fable 5 model, nineteen days after the US Commerce Department had ordered it shut off. The episode exposed a gap in US artificial intelligence (AI) policy: The United States has no clear, public process for restricting access to a privately developed AI model. The story behind the restrictions on Fable 5The administration’s order to shut down Fable 5 cut against the administration’s own stated approach. My recommendation departs from the executive order in one important respect. Without them, Fable 5 risks setting the default rules for how future administrations restrict AI models.