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Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’


Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried about spies getting their hands on costly "algorithmic secrets" from the U.S.' top AI companies.

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried that spies, likely from China, are getting their hands on costly “algorithmic secrets” from the U.S.’s top AI companies – and he wants the U.S. government to step in. Speaking at a Council on Foreign Relations event on Monday, Amodei said that China is known for its “large-scale industrial espionage” and that AI companies, including Anthropic, are almost certainly being targeted. Amodei’s concerns, as he laid out in his essay “ Machines of Loving Grace ” and elsewhere, center on China using AI for authoritarian and military purposes.

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