Dario Amodei: Anthropic never advocated banning open-weights models
In a post on reports that US officials may ban Chinese open-weights models, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the company has never advocated for a ban. He calls open-weights models without dangerous capabilities a public good, and says his top concern is authoritarian governments building AI more powerful than the US's to achieve military superiority or deep repression.
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