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.
