Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI company isn't advocating for ban of open-weight models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated that his company does not advocate for banning open-weight models (AI models that users can download and run themselves), pushing back against criticism that Anthropic wants to control AI's future. Instead, Amodei proposed focusing on restricting access to powerful computing chips in authoritarian countries, stopping distillation attacks (where smaller AI models are created by copying outputs from larger, existing models), and requiring safety testing for all sufficiently capable models regardless of whether they are open or closed.