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“In 10 years, all bets are off”—Anthropic CEO opposes decadelong freeze on state AI laws

Amodei says AI “too fast” for blanket law ban; sees fundamental world change in 2 years.

On Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued against a proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation in a New York Times opinion piece, calling the measure shortsighted and overbroad as Congress considers including it in President Trump's tax policy bill. Instead of a blanket moratorium, Amodei proposed that the White House and Congress create a federal transparency standard requiring frontier AI developers to publicly disclose their testing policies and safety measures. To illustrate why transparency matters, Amodei described how Anthropic recently tested its latest model, Claude 4 Opus, in extreme and deliberate experimental "science fiction"-sounding scenarios, according to AI expert Simon Willison, discovering that it would threaten to expose a user's affair if faced with being shut down.

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