Tech Desk 
Feb 11, 2025
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called the “AI Action Summit” in Paris this week a “missed opportunity,” and urged the artificial intelligence (AI) industry — and government — to “move faster and with greater clarity.”
In a statement, Amodei stated: “We were pleased to attend the AI Action Summit in Paris, and we appreciate the French government’s efforts to bring together AI companies, researchers, and policymakers from across the world.”
“However, greater focus and urgency is needed on several topics given the pace at which the technology is progressing,” he added.
Amodei’s criticism of the AI Action Summit, the latest in a series of conferences that brought together AI companies and regulators to attempt to arrive at a consensus on AI governance, echoes that of several academics earlier this week.
One told Transformer that the conference’s commitments, which the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) refused to sign, said “effectively nothing except for platitudes.”
In comments at the conference, US Vice President JD Vance adopted an entirely different stance and denounced what he characterised as “massive” and stifling regulations on AI championed by Europe.
Moreover, Vance took issue with content moderation, alluding to the “sustainable” and “inclusive” wording in the conference’s commitments, which he rejected as “authoritarian censorship.”
Amodei informed in his statement that AI is quickly becoming more sophisticated and that failing to regulate it could result in disastrous consequences.
“The capabilities of AI systems will be best thought of as akin to an entirely new state populated by highly intelligent people appearing on the global stage,” Amodei stated. “Advanced AI presents significant global security dangers, ranging from misuse of AI systems by non-state actors … We must ensure democratic societies lead in AI, and that authoritarian countries do not use it to establish global military dominance.”
Amodei urged governments to emplace their resources to measure how AI is being used, and to enact policy focused on “ensuring that everyone shares in the economic [uplift] of very powerful AI.”
In addition, he argued for more government transparency when it comes to AI safety and security, along with the plans to assess AI risks.
