Comment by Dario Amodei

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.
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AI Verified Amodei explicitly rejects a ban on open-weight models and proposes safety testing instead; this directly bears on banning dangerous open-source models. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago
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AI Verified Correct answer is against: Amodei explicitly says neither he nor Anthropic advocates banning open-weight models, favoring targeted safety testing instead. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Nextgov/FCW (28 Jul 2026) directly quotes Dario Amodei with this exact wording. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago
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