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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."

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Dario Amodei Raises China Threat, Says Open-Weight Models Riskier for Cyberattacks, Biological Weapons

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that open-weight AI models carry higher misuse risk and accused Chinese firms of industrial-scale distillation of US frontier models.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has explained why his company was the only major AI firm to skip a 75-company letter backing open-weight AI models, arguing they carry greater cyberattack and bioweapons risk, and pressing for a crackdown on Chinese distillation of US frontier models including Claude.