Dario Amodei Says He's Not Against Open Models, He's Against Selling Chips to China

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company has not advocated banning open-weight AI models, responding to criticism that it favors closed models to protect its business. He argued that his main concerns involve Chinese access to powerful AI capabilities and the misuse of advanced models for cyber or biological attacks, and he called instead for restrictions on industrial-scale distillation, mandatory safety testing, and an end to U.S. chip sales to China. The article also describes disagreement among major AI companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, over open models and U.S. policy toward China.

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