Dario Amodei · Anthropic · China · JD Vance · Anthropic
Position Open Weights Models
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A post by Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO.
Key facts
- The reporter laid these out in their essay The Adolescence of Technology six months ago 1, and have held these positions consistently for many years
- Edit 28 July: Updated to note that the cited research on modular training strategies was a collaboration between Anthropic and AE Studio
- Reports suggest that some US officials are considering banning the use of Chinese open-weights models by US companies
- Over the last few days there has been a lot of discussion about open-weights models, especially those from China
Summary
Over the last few days there has been a lot of discussion about open-weights models, especially those from China. Open-weights models that don’t have dangerous capabilities are a public good: they don’t cost anything besides the compute needed to run them, and they provide value to businesses, developers, and researchers. Protectionist bans would not address their most serious national security concerns. Their primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.