AI + ML<\/p>\n
Claude maker warns authoritarian regimes could set the rules unless Washington tightens chip and model controls<\/p>\n
AI monger Anthropic wants America and its allies to tighten measures
\naimed at curbing China’s AI progress, warning of the consequences if “authoritarian
\ngovernments” take the lead rather than Uncle Sam.<\/p>\n
In a lengthy missive<\/a> Since the technology is advancing swiftly, democratic Recent history suggests these controls “have been incredibly AI labs in China have only built models that come close to Many will suspect this is Anthropic’s chief motivation in As The Register pointed out at the time, accusing China Anthropic’s sermon also shows blinkered thinking. It implies Numerous reports also indicate that Chinese organizations have made huge Anthropic sets out two scenarios for what the world could In the first scenario, America has “successfully defended Another problem with Anthropic’s plan is that many countries, Anthropic can draw little comfort from the Trump administration, \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI + ML Claude maker warns authoritarian regimes could set the rules unless Washington tightens chip and model…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-586510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nposted on its website, the San Francisco-based org says it expects AI to
\ndeliver “transformational economic and societal impacts” in the coming years, and
\nwhether the transition goes well depends on where the most capable systems are
\nbuilt first.<\/p>\n
\ncountries have only a limited time in which to act, Anthropic believes. The measures
\nit wants to see are nothing new: enforcing tighter export controls on chips
\nused for AI development, such as Nvidia’s GPUs, and cutting off access to
\nAmerican AI models.<\/p>\n
\nsuccessful,” it says. But if Chinese researchers are only several months behind the US in AI capabilities, as many experts estimate, how
\nsuccessful can those efforts have been?<\/p>\n
\nthose in America because of their talent and their knack for exploiting
\nloopholes to get around export controls, Anthropic claims, along with distillation
\nattacks that “illicitly extract the innovations of American companies.”<\/p>\n
\ncalling for action against China. Back in February, the Claude model maker\u00a0accused
\nChina-based rivals<\/a>\u00a0including DeepSeek of using distillation to train their
\nmodels by siphoning knowledge from Anthropic’s own. <\/p>\n
\nof copying, while using content created
\nby others<\/a> to train your own models, shows a staggering lack of self-awareness
\nfrom the AI industry.<\/p>\n
\nthat China can only advance by riding on America’s coattails, and is incapable
\nof innovating. This is despite the shockwaves generated
\nby the release
\nof the DeepSeek R1 model<\/a> early in 2025, believed to be on a par with the best US models.<\/p>\n
\nstrides with domestically
\ndeveloped AI silicon<\/a>, and Beijing even tried
\nto discourage tech companies<\/a> in the country from buying and using Nvidia chips.<\/p>\n
\nlook like in 2028, a date when it expects “transformative AI systems” to have emerged.<\/p>\n
\nits compute advantage,” and “democracies set the rules and norms around AI.” The
\nsecond has China overtaking the US, leading to AI norms and rules being shaped
\nby authoritarian regimes, with the best models enabling “automated repression
\nat scale.”<\/p>\n
\nespecially in Europe, view both American and Chinese AI supremacy as a threat to democracy.
\nThere is a concerted push in Europe for “digital
\nsovereignty<\/a>”\u00a0to minimize reliance on US technology, for example. Others
\nwarn it could erode
\ndemocracy in America<\/a> itself. <\/p>\n
\nwhich has a constantly shifting attitude to China. Export controls were said not to be\u00a0<\/a>high<\/a>\u00a0on the agenda during the President’s trip to Beijing this week, and it was
\nreported that the US
\nhas now cleared around 10 Chinese firms<\/a> to buy\u00a0Nvidia’s second-most
\npowerful AI chip, the H200.\u00a0
\n\u00ae <\/p>\n