Anthropic doesn’t support a ban on open-source artificial intelligence but is wary of models that have potentially dangerous capabilities, the company said in a Monday blog post following several other tech leaders forming an open-source AI Alliance. “To summarize my and Anthropic’s position, we have not and are not advocating for a ban on open-weights models as a category,” Amodei wrote. Although he acknowledged his security concerns, Amodei noted that he understands the value of open-source models, and that they serve a public good by democratizing access to AI technology. Open-source models’ security status is currently a pressing topic in D.C. David Sacks, the co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, has criticized Anthropic’s reticence on open-source models, particularly surrounding training models via distillation. NVIDIA united over 30 companies to create an Open Secure AI Alliance to promote the use of open source models for cybersecurity.