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Its precise function, biotechnological utility (if any), or level of significance is not yet clear, but at minimum it is work I would have…
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We are also interested in these later stages, but even simply accelerating the first stage of fundamental biological discoveries has the…
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The first step is showing that AI can first help with, and then drive, biological discoveries.
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The main difference between biology and mathematics, of course, is that math can be done purely theoretically, while biology requires…
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We think this is wrong.
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I’m proud of the resources Anthropic has invested in accelerating the public benefits of AI through the life sciences, and we’re aiming…
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This is the toughest dilemma. This is the toughest aspect of our situation.
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One, the idea that we would never get the incredible benefits, never get the medical cures, that doesn't sit right with me.
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"The AI kill switch could be a good idea," Amodei said. "But I don't think banning it, completely banning it, is the right approach.
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Whenever anyone builds an AI model, there's a third-party evaluator who can verify whether that company is following the safety practices…
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My view here is, it has always been very strange that this technology is being built by a private company,
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But I think a combination of democratically-elected governments, I don't know about handing over, but some kind of oversight, some kind of…
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I won't lie to you – there are real dangers,
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It doesn't mean we need to panic today. It doesn't mean we need to shut it all down. But I would say it's a warning sign. It's a warning…
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I don't think I fully just appreciated what it would actually be like when the progress was as fast as it was.
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And the strangest thing about it is, I agree with them. I'm uncomfortable.
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To the right combination of governments.
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It doesn't mean that. What it means is that we need to make sure that every generation of models that we release is properly tested.
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The more long-term thing would be working together to put a speed limit on the rate of AI progress,
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And honestly, I don't know if it's possible, but we should try.
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The worry I have – I am concerned that one single government could abuse this technology just as easily as a single company could.
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“I believe that if slowing down bought us even an extra year or two before models reach critical levels of capability, and we used that…
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By contrast I think the right ‘rules of the road’ can simultaneously (a) address AI’s cyber/bio/alignment risks, (b) institutionally…
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We try very hard to make proposals that disadvantage (slow down) frontier AI companies while *advantaging* smaller competitors,
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That is totally on us, and I think it’s the criticism you should be making, instead of all this stuff about messaging and marketing.
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I know that there’s a sort of Silicon Valley shorthand where regulation = regulatory capture = concentration of power, but I’ve always…
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I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new…
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this is a big problem.
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I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust,
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I think by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that we haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to…
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Many people outside this bubble think of regulation as something that constrains corporate power and benefits ordinary people.
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open-weights do help some with this but are nowhere near a sufficient solution because they simply shift the concentration somewhat to…
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AI is *structurally* a technology that tends to concentrate power
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I think the right “rules of the road” can simultaneously (a) address AI’s cyber/bio/alignment risks, (b) institutionally constrain the…
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We try very hard to make proposals that disadvantage (slow down) frontier AI companies while *advantaging* smaller competitors.
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This hurts the business interests of the frontier labs and helps challengers, including open-weights!
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At their best, institutions can vest power in ideas rather than people, and thereby decentralize that power.
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The approach that the Trump administration is reported to be taking — pre-deployment testing for frontier models, and also testing of…
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I do not think that the events of the last few months have “failed to result in [my] preferred regulatory path”.
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I don’t usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important…
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Open-weights do help some with this but are nowhere near a sufficient solution because they simply shift the concentration somewhat to…
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This is why Anthropic has always made its policy proposals very carefully.
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Overall my view is that AI is *structurally* a technology that tends to concentrate power, for reasons that have nothing to do with…
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I know that there’s a sort of Silicon Valley shorthand where regulation = regulatory capture = concentration of power, but I’ve always…
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I think that “either concentrate it in the hands of a chosen few companies and politicians via regulation or distribute it widely” is a…
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I am also supportive of Demis Hassabis’ ideas around a FINRA-like entity.
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The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap:
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AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle.
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we're committed to standing up to-- you know, actions that we think are not in line with the values of this country.
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We're not doing it, you know, for the sake of Pentagon officials.
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We are trying to do whatever we can to support U.S. national security.
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we're still trying to reach a deal with them.
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we haven't had that conversation yet.
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we are patriots. In everything we have done here, we have stood up for the values of this country.
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we've been studiously evenhanded.
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We are willing to provide our models to all branches of the government, including the Department of War, the intelligence community,
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the judicial interpretation of the Fourth Amendment has not caught up.
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It's not about any particular person. It's not about any particular administration. It's about the principle of standing up for what's…
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we'll do everything we can to support the Department of War to provide its technology for as long as it takes to off-board us
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it's very hard to interpret this in any way other than punitive.
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We are still-- you know, we are still advocating for those red lines. We're not gonna move on those red lines.
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If we can get to the point with the department where, you know, where, you know, we can see things the same way, then perhaps there could…
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Domestic mass surveillance does not help the U.S. catch up with its adversaries.
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We can choose to sell or not sell whatever we want.
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Our model has a personality.
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I believe we have to defend our country from autocratic adversaries like China and like Russia.
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28 Feb 2026 |
the AI systems of today are nowhere near reliable enough to make fully autonomous weapons.
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it didn't actually concede in any meaningful way.
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I actually agree that in the long run, we need to have a democratic conversation.
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We simply believe that the reliability is not there yet, and that we need to have a conversation about oversight.
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The red lines we have drawn we drew because we-- we-- we-- we believe that crossing those red lines is-- is contrary to American values.
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there's a basic unpredictability to them that in a purely technical way we have not solved.
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we're committed to trying to find a deal.
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But we won't let that succeed.
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Suppose I have an army of 10 million drones all coordinated by one person or a small set of people.
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28 Feb 2026 |
I think it was made very clear in some of their statements, in some of their language that this was retaliatory and punitive.
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I don't want to make this about this particular administration. I don't want to make this about particular people.
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we do need to draw a line in the sand.
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This is the idea of making weapons that fire without any human involvement.
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I don't think the right long-term solution is for a private company and the Pentagon to argue about this.
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the nature of the tweet that the secretary put out was designed to create uncertainty, was designed to create a situation where people…
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We're actually deeply concerned about this.
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Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world.
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We have never seen anything like this pace of innovation.
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We have wanted to strike a deal since the beginning.
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is an abuse of the government's authority, even where it's technically legal.
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I think we are a good judge of what our models can do reliably
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we are not categorically against fully autonomous weapons.
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we are patriotic Americans. We have done-- everything we have done has been for the sake of this country, for the sake of supporting U.S…
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Our leaning forward in deploying our models with the military was done because we believe in this country.
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concentrating power that much doesn't work.
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It’s really just practical hands on experience.
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I wouldn’t worry about the cultural stuff.
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I felt that the most groundbreaking work has tended to arc the industrial labs.
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Hopefully.
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I can work on something that 200 other people will work on or I could try and set a new direction.
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I don’t generally agree with any of those things but I think this is a possible outcome and at the very least as a tail risk we should take…
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I felt like this was a silly state of affairs and that of course we can do research on making systems safer and more reliable that doesn’t…
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You can’t really research AGI now because we can’t build an AGI.
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I don’t think of anything I do as slowing down the rate of AI progress or at least I’m not trying to do that.
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