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Anthropic dropped Claude Fable 5… and the government shut it down in under 72 hours. The exact same thing happened 3 years ago. One indie developer released something that made every major AI CEO nervous and forced them to testify before Congress. It was called Auto-GPT.

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Anthropic dropped Claude Fable 5… and the government shut it down in under 72 hours.

The exact same thing happened 3 years ago.

One indie developer released something that made every major AI CEO nervous and forced them to testify before Congress.

It was called Auto-GPT.

March 2023. Toran Bruce Richards uploads Auto-GPT to GitHub.

It exploded. Thousands of stars appeared on GitHub in days.

Everyone was talking about “agents that work on their own.”

People were testing it with the newly released GPT-4 and generating crazy results (and invoices).

The era of AI Agents, which we use today in OpenClaw, Crew, etc., was born.

It was the first real autonomous AI agent: you gave it a goal and it would break it down into tasks, browse the internet, write code, and keep looping until the job was done.

One month later, Sam Altman and other AI CEOs were called to testify in front of the US Senate.

Senators used Auto-GPT as the main example: “Look how fast this is moving… agents with internet access and code execution.”

One solo developer forced the first big regulatory conversation about AI.

History always repeats when something gets too powerful.