Schrödinger's China at once is an evil entity looking to use AI for their own nefarious purposes yet also willing to cooperate with their main competitor to prevent other actors (who??) from achieving similar goals (all while under a chip embargo too!!) The reality is much less confusing: Anthropic CEO does not wish for models with similar (or greater) capabilities compared to his own closed and overpriced ones to be…
> ...banning the use of these models by US businesses does nothing to address this risk, because bad actors are unlikely to be legitimate US businesses. It would protect US AI companies from competition, but that has never been my goal.
But on the other, he argues:
> All sufficiently capable models, open and closed, should go through mandatory safety testing.
Models that don't pass safety testing would be banned. Darius does not appear to be against banning models. He wants the government to have a regulatory body that has the ability to ban models. Then Anthropic can do regulatory capture of that agency and control what models are permitted to be released.
Also, during this mandatory safety testing, models would be blocked from use, and by the time the testing was done (probably years) the models would be obsolete.