Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’
The CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei is worried that spies, probably from China, get valuable “algorithmic secrets” in the hands of the best AI companies of the US – and he wants the US government to take it.
Speaking in a council about foreign relations event On Monday, Amodei said that China is known for its “large-scale industrial espionage” and that AI companies such as anthropic are almost certainly the target.
“Many of these algorithmic secrets are there $ 100 million secrets that are a few lines of code,” he said. “And, you know, I am sure there are people who are trying to steal and they can succeed.”
More help from the US government to defend themselves against this risk is ‘very important’, Amodei added, without specifying exactly what kind of help would be needed.
Anthropic refused to comment on WAN on the comments specifically but to which reference is made Anthropic’s recommendations To the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) of the White House earlier this month.
In the entry, Anthropic argues that the federal government should collaborate with AI -industrial leaders to strengthen safety at Frontier AI Labs, also by collaborating with American intelligence services and their allies.
The comments are more critical attitude towards the Chinese AI development in accordance with Amodeis. Amodei has called to Strong American export controls on AI chips to China while he said Deepseek scored “the worst” on a critical Bioweapons Data Safety test that ran anthropic.
Amodei’s concern, as he explained in his essay “Machines of loving grace‘And elsewhere, central on China with the help of AI for authoritarian and military purposes.
This kind of attitude has led criticism Of some in the AI community who claim that the US and China should work more together, no less, to AI, to prevent a weapon race that results in building a national system so powerful that people cannot have control over it.
