Our position on open-weights models(anthropic.com)
968 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 1395 comments
tl;dr: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarifies that the company does not support banning open-weights models, including Chinese ones, and calls such bans ineffective for national security. Instead, he advocates for three measures: restricting powerful chip exports to China, cracking down on industrial-scale model distillation, and mandating pre-release safety testing for all sufficiently capable models regardless of origin or whether they're open or closed.
HN Discussion:
  • Anthropic's stance is self-serving protectionism disguised as safety concern to eliminate competition
  • Mandatory safety testing is effectively a backdoor ban on open-weights models via gatekeeping
  • Anthropic's moral posturing is hypocritical given its ties to military and current US regime
  • The article's logic is internally inconsistent, particularly on bans working for chips but not models
  • Open-weight proliferation poses genuine bioweapon/cyber risks that critics ignore