ClaimsDario Amodei

“We had this blog post out about security where we said we have a two key system for access to the model weights.”

Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO 8 August 2023 Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - $10 Billion Models, OpenAI, Scaling, & AGI in 2 years (Dwarkesh Podcast)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Anthropic published a blog post on security stating it has a two-key system for access to model weights.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

The second judge said mixed; the verdict shown is the first judge's.

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What would count as true or false

Judge as of 2023-08-08. True: an Anthropic blog post or official post on security, published on or before 2023-08-08, says Anthropic uses a two-party/two-key (multi-party authorization) control for access to model weights or the systems that hold them. Mostly true: such a post exists and describes two-person or multi-party access control over weights, but with slightly different wording (e.g. 'two-party control' or 'multi-party authorization') or applied to production systems that include the weights. Mixed: the post describes multi-party controls but does not clearly apply them to model weights. Mostly false: Anthropic published a security post, but it does not describe a two-key or multi-party access system, or the description appeared only after 2023-08-08. False: Anthropic's security publications before that date contain nothing of the kind.

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Evidence (3)

  1. E1 Frontier model security Anthropic · 25 July 2023 Own record

    “Anthropic is implementing two-party controls, SSDF, SLSA, and other cybersecurity best practices.”
  2. E2 Frontier model security Anthropic · 25 July 2023 Own record

    “This pattern should be applied to all systems involved in the development, training, hosting, and deployment of frontier AI models.”
  3. E3 Frontier model security Anthropic · 25 July 2023 Own record

    “two people with two keys are needed to open the most secure vaults, and multi-party review patterns have been applied in manufacturing”

Reasoning

Anthropic's 'Frontier model security' post, dated 2023-07-25, states that Anthropic is 'implementing two-party controls' (E1). It says this pattern should apply to all systems involved in developing, training, hosting and deploying frontier AI models [E2]. In the quoted text, 'two keys' appears as an analogy [E3], and the quoted passages do not name model weights directly. This matches the 'mostly true' criterion: different wording, applied to systems that include the weights.

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Dario Amodei, “Anthropic published a blog post on security stating it has a two-key system for access to model weights.” (said 8 August 2023). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_35811f4f9e16, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_35811f4f9e16

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