"Dario Amodei has responded to the controversy swirling around Anthropic's refusal to sign the open letter. He says he agrees with much of it, but does not agree that open-weights models necessarily make it easier to develop safeguards, or that broad access to capabilities necessarily helps..."
...defenders more than attackers. His main concern is the attacker-defender asymmetry in biological attacks. He also reiterates his position on authoritarian governments. I will quote; 'My 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.' I will also quote his closing paragraph in full; 'To summarize my and Anthropic’s position, we have not and are not advocating for a ban on open-weights models as a category. We should instead focus on keeping powerful chips out of authoritarian hands, stopping industrial-scale distillation, and requiring safety testing of all sufficiently capable models, open and closed.' Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · 24m Our position on open-weights models From anthropic.com 1 1 11 1.5K Official post. — Andrew Curran
Source: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2081869321014575283