This is Dario Amodei’s 2023 Senate testimony.
What’s happening in AI is EXACTLY what he proposed and knee capping open-source AI is next.
1. US government “mandating tests for all models and requiring they pass certain standards before deployment” and admitting this will cause “substantial slowdown in AI development”. slowing down AI research is not a side effect of what he calls for but one of his critical goals which he has been pretty vocal about.
2. “open weights models are fine up to some certain scale.” this means the GLM 5.2 model, or any other open model that would threat Anthropic’s benchmarks is marker as a security threat, since bad actors could “repurpose them if powerful enough open-source models become available.”
3. his likely target next is limiting the access to open models, or the compute. meaning the glorious days of setting up your own compute and running any model you want, is not acceptable to Dario.
4. government must “secure the AI supply chain”, including “Trained AI systems, which are vulnerable to “export” through cybertheft or
uncontrolled release.”
once a powerful open model is released, it is no longer controlled by the company or the U.S. government. Anyone can download it, copy it, fine-tune it, and run it. in his worldview, this becomes “uncontrolled export of frontier AI” which cannot continue.
Anthropic’s fear campaign around Mythos has almost single-handedly slowed the normal release of GPT-5.6, while also making government approval of frontier model access the new normal for US AI labs.
It’s not hard to foresee that this will inevitably lead to:
1. Frontier models will release slower. The days when the industry was shipping new models every month are over.
2. Frontier labs will be compelled to build “will the government permit release” into their training process as a binding constraint.
3. A caste-like pattern of access will take hold across the entire industry.
This is precisely why fear-based marketing and geopolitical posturing in the tech sector has always been a dangerous game to play.