Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarifies that the company does not support banning open-weights AI models, despite recent speculation to the contrary. He instead calls for three narrower measures: restricting advanced chip sales to China, cracking down on industrial-scale distillation of frontier models, and mandatory safety testing for all sufficiently capable systems regardless of whether their weights are open or closed. Amodei argues that blanket bans on open weights would fail to address his core national-security concern, which is authoritarian governments developing superior AI capability.
