Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarifies the company has never advocated banning open-weights AI models, instead calling for chip export controls, action on distillation, and mandatory safety testing.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has moved to clarify the company's position on open-weights AI models, pushing back against recent claims that Anthropic favours restricting them, particularly those built in China. In a new blog post, Amodei laid out a detailed rebuttal to the idea that Anthropic sees such bans as useful policy, while also outlining what he believes are the real risks tied to powerful AI systems, open or closed.
Why did Amodei feel compelled to respond?
The clarification comes amid a broader debate in Washington over whether US officials should restrict American companies from using Chinese open-weights models. Several tech companies had signed a letter defending open-weights models more broadly, and in that context, some critics accused Anthropic of quietly pushing for a ban to shield its own commercial interests. Amodei rejected that characterisation outright, stating plainly that Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models. He argued that open-weights models without dangerous capabilities function as a public good, offering value to businesses, developers, and researchers at little more than the cost of the compute needed to run them.
The two scenarios Amodei says actually worry him
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