alt.hn

6/29/2026 at 9:11:33 AM

Anthropic CEO: Open-Source AI is getting dangerous (2023)

 https://xcancel.com/coinbureau/status/2071330294452666695

by therein

6/29/2026 at 1:19:41 PM

Creating AI monopolies is more dangerous. How much better would it be for environment and privacy if instead of concentrating AI power in few data centers it's distributed across all compute and memory devices? If just few players control the narrative and the infrastructure it's a single point of failure or worse a single point of control. Bad for democracy, society, pushes inequality.

by novaRom

6/29/2026 at 10:09:02 AM

They just want US authorities to ban big corporations from using models like GLM etc. so that they can keep selling their overpriced tokens. Funnily enough, a ban like this would close to impossible to enforce on individuals, so I guess their lobbying efforts will soon be met by lobbying efforts from big corporations that are losing from this.

by gorgmah

6/29/2026 at 11:12:28 AM

Completely stopping people from using open source models is impossible, but if it became a federal law there could be incredible pressure exerted on US companies. For example, OpenRouter might be compelled to not accept open source requests on threat of fines.

by InkCanon

6/29/2026 at 5:32:23 PM

Companies who spend lots of $$$ making a model and then open sourcing it might decide not to if the use of the model were banned in the USA.

by londons_explore

6/29/2026 at 12:52:38 PM

I'm just a guy who writes code and geopolitics and big business is usually above my head

That said, I have a suspicion that if the US exerts that kind of pressure on US companies, they will just pivot to using offshore contractors that are doing the things they want

by bluefirebrand

6/29/2026 at 2:08:29 PM

I agree with you and just want to add how crazy it is to hear these statements from CEOs as you get older. They literally, literally just say the thing that will maximize profit for their company. Whether it sounds altruistic or not, it's ALWAYS to increase shareholder value (money for the company).

by butlike

6/29/2026 at 9:50:11 AM

Paraphrasing him, he says that open source software which tool tens or hundreds of millions to build should be classified as a different category. And the implication being they should be banned. Why?

by InkCanon

6/29/2026 at 12:42:34 PM

'These tools will become dangerously powerful, which is why nobody should be allowed to have them except through buying them from specifically me' seems a lot like motivated reasoning to me.

by kombookcha

6/29/2026 at 1:40:42 PM

Seems like they haven't learned from the last time they played with fire and got their models restricted to only U.S. citizens for "national security reasons".

by DaSHacka

6/29/2026 at 9:20:32 AM

Dangerous for their business model I guess.

by unfixed

6/29/2026 at 2:27:21 PM

Actually all the things he lists make it safer for world wide adaption. A closed AI model should be illegal worldwide or at least in no way or form used by the government or public institutions.

by 1dontknow_

6/29/2026 at 9:52:21 AM

Of course, we should only trust Anthropic on this matter.

by RayBye

6/29/2026 at 4:06:07 PM

It’s no different than the “speech is dangerous” safetyism people who push social media moderation, age verification / identity checks, and so on. Ultimately these views that sacrifice rights for safety are from people that don’t really value either.

by SilverElfin

6/29/2026 at 4:42:59 PM

"Please clap" - Dario Amodei, probably.

by bigbuppo

6/29/2026 at 12:34:24 PM

If they are getting regulated to death they may as well bring the rest of the industry down with them, probably

by petterroea

6/29/2026 at 12:08:47 PM

The interesting thing here is that Amodei is implicitly admitting he foresees open-weight models (and not "open-source", please...) reaching Mythos-equivalent capability before much longer.

Which, I mean, d'uh; if you've been paying attention it's not a wild forecast.

But it's interesting that he's admitting it.

by Balinares

6/29/2026 at 9:38:38 AM

Dangerous for them. Great for everyone else who want alternatives.

That means open weight models are good enough to threaten Anthropic's bottom line so much that Dario needs to get governments to ban the release of open weight models.

by rvz

6/29/2026 at 12:55:47 PM

(2023)

Testimony from July 25, 2023 U.S. Senate hearing "Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation."

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings...

by ChrisArchitect

6/29/2026 at 1:06:29 PM

Do we have recent commentary on open-weight from the Anthropic founding team?

by clbrmbr

6/29/2026 at 9:24:26 AM

Disappointing behaviour from him.

Glad someone was watching and clipped it.

by khurs

6/29/2026 at 5:58:15 PM

This is from 2023.

by cleaning

6/29/2026 at 6:50:23 PM

oops! Thanks

by khurs

6/29/2026 at 9:11:33 AM

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by therein

6/29/2026 at 10:19:49 AM

dario is a faux leader, one of many in the us. western tech is decrepit. best content these days comes from juejin

by Soarez