Anthropic CEO Says Spies Are After $100 Million AI Secrets In a 'Few Lines of Code'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: 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 like Anthropic are almost certainly being targeted. 'Many of these algorithmic secrets, there are $100 million secrets that are a few lines of code,' he said. 'And, you know, I'm sure that there are folks trying to steal them, and they may be succeeding.'

More help from the U.S. government to defend against this risk is 'very important,' Amodei added, without specifying exactly what kind of help would be required. Anthropic declined to comment to TechCrunch on the remarks specifically but referred to Anthropic's recommendations to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) earlier this month. In the submission, Anthropic argues that the federal government should partner with AI industry leaders to beef up security at frontier AI labs, including by working with U.S. intelligence agencies and their allies.

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