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Safety, alignment & governance
Our position on open-weights models
Amodei says Anthropic has not advocated for a ban on open-weights models. He argues for targeted controls on chips and distillation, plus safety testing of sufficiently capable models, open and closed.
Why it matters: The argument shifts policy attention from a model’s open or closed status to the risks Amodei identifies: who can train powerful models, how distillation affects that capability, and whether sufficiently capable models pass safety testing before release.
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