Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is concerned that Chinese spies could be gaining access to the "algorithmic secrets" of leading American AI companies, and he has called on the US government to intervene, TechCrunch reports.
Amodei said that China is known for its "large-scale industrial espionage" and that artificial intelligence companies, including Anthropic, are almost certainly its targets.
"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."
Anthropic previously submitted recommendations to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, arguing that the federal government should work with AI industry leaders to strengthen the security of AI labs, including through collaboration with U.S. intelligence agencies and their allies.
Amodei has also previously called for the US to tighten controls on the export of AI chips to China, noting that DeepSeek received the "worst score" in a critical bioweapons data security test conducted by Anthropic.
Amodei's concern, as he has outlined in his essay Machines of Loving Grace and other works, centers on China's use of AI for authoritarian and military purposes.