# Anthropic CEO responds to advocates of open-weight models

*Published on: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:07:26 GMT*

Anthropic CEO responds to advocates of open-weight models

• He named China’s technological rise as the primary threat.

• Access to advanced chips could give authoritarian regimes an edge in warfare, surveillance and repression.

• Open-weight models pose distinct cyber and biological risks because they are harder to control.

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for tighter chip controls, action against large-scale distillation and mandatory safety testing.

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