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🤖 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarifies: Not opposed to open weight models, but worried about Chinese AI Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded to industry rumors on Monday and made it clear that the company has never advocated a ban on open weight models

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🤖 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarifies: Not opposed to open weight models, but worried about Chinese AI Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded to industry rumors on Monday and made it clear that the company has never advocated a ban on open weight models. He believes that open weight models without dangerous capabilities belong to the public interest and can provide value to companies and researchers. Amodei expressed concern that governments like China are building more powerful AI models for purposes such as military advantage. He supports restrictions on the export of powerful chips to China, a crackdown on industrial-scale distillation, and calls for mandatory safety testing of all sufficiently powerful models. TechCrunch | AnthropicAI…