Anthropic’s international chief says open models carry more risk by definition

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Anthropic’s head of international told Bloomberg TV in Dublin that open alternatives to its models carry more risk by definition. That is a broader claim than the one Dario Amodei set out in July, when he wrote that open-weight models without dangerous capabilities are a public good.

Anthropic’s top sales executive outside the US says the open models competing with its own carry more risk. He said it in Dublin, at an Irish government summit.

“We need to be really careful with open-source on safety,” Guillaume Princen, Anthropic’s head of international, told Bloomberg TV on Wednesday. “I can’t talk for open models. But by definition, there’s more risk with them.”

The venue is not neutral ground. The International AI Summit is an official event of Ireland’s EU Council Presidency, opened by Henna Virkkunen. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has asked Ireland to recuse itself, over...

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