Anthropic CEO Urges Mandatory Testing and Regulation of High-Risk AI Models

Rapid advances in generative AI have heightened concerns about models escaping control, cyberattacks and job displacement. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that the government should set safety standards and deployment rules for high-risk models that meet a training-compute threshold, drawing on the Federal Aviation Administration's oversight of commercial aviation.

In a lengthy post published on June 10, Amodei presented Washington with a blueprint for AI regulation. He called for mandatory third-party safety testing before high-risk models are released and for the government to have the authority to block their deployment. He also advocated stronger cybersecurity protections and advance planning for economic measures to address structural unemployment caused by AI.