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Anthropic ’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried that spy , likely from China , are getting their hand on high-priced “ algorithmic secrets ” from the U.S. ’s top AI company — and he wants the U.S. governance to step in .
Speaking at a Council on Foreign Relationseventon Monday , Amodei said that China is known for its “ large - scale industrial espionage ” and that AI companies like Anthropic are almost sure being targeted .
“ Many of these algorithmic secrets , there are $ 100 million enigma that are a few lines of codification , ” he tell . “ And , you cognise , I ’m sure that there are folk music adjudicate to slip them , and they may be succeed . ”
More help from the U.S. administration to defend against this risk is “ very authoritative , ” Amodei added , without specifying exactly what kind of help would be required .
Anthropic declined to comment to TechCrunch on the remark specifically but referred toAnthropic ’s recommendationsto the White House ’s Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) earlier this month .
In the submission , Anthropic argues that the Union politics should partner with AI industry leader to beef up security at frontier AI labs , include by working with U.S. intelligence agencies and their ally .
The remarks are in keeping with Amodei ’s more critical stance toward Chinese AI development . Amodei hascalled forstrong U.S. export ascendence on AI french-fried potatoes to Chinawhile saying that DeepSeek make “ the worst”on a critical bioweapon data refuge trial that Anthropic ran .
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Amodei ’s concern , as he place out in his essay “ Machines of Loving Grace ” and elsewhere , center on China using AI for authoritarian and military purpose .
This variety of stance has contribute tocriticismfrom some in the AI community who argue the U.S. and China should cooperate more , not less , on AI , to obviate an arms race that leave in either state building a organization so powerful that humans ca n’t control it .
