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summary: "Asked on CBS whether he would hand over Anthropic or its technology, CEO Dario Amodei suggested shared oversight by democratically elected governments, warning that a single government could abuse AI as easily as a company. “I don't know about handing over, but some kind of oversight, some kind of joint governance,” he said, adding that such an arrangement would take years. Amodei also accused the AI industry of concealing dangers. “And I think for too long the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risk,” he said, while maintaining that Anthropic had not done so. He defended Claude’s biology safeguards, citing attempts to use the model to build biological weapons, and urged the US and China to seek limits on AI uses that could enable bioterrorism. The interview followed his Saturday call to slow improvements in AI capabilities so safety work can keep up, rather than halt model training. Anthropic committed to giving independent evaluators permanent access to its systems comparable to that of employees, allowing them to verify safety practices, report incidents and assess models during training. OpenAI’s Sam Altman backed the proposal and committed to sim"
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# Anthropic’s Amodei Floats Joint AI Oversight by Democratic Governments

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**Published:** 2026-09-14T02:47:02.000Z
**Category:** Regulation
**Topics:** anthropic, regulation, safety, industry, dario\-amodei, governance

## Summary

Asked on CBS whether he would hand over Anthropic or its technology, CEO Dario Amodei suggested shared oversight by democratically elected governments, warning that a single government could abuse AI as easily as a company\. “I don't know about handing over, but some kind of oversight, some kind of joint governance,” he said, adding that such an arrangement would take years\. Amodei also accused the AI industry of concealing dangers\. “And I think for too long the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risk,” he said, while maintaining that Anthropic had not done so\. He defended Claude’s biology safeguards, citing attempts to use the model to build biological weapons, and urged the US and China to seek limits on AI uses that could enable bioterrorism\. The interview followed his Saturday call to slow improvements in AI capabilities so safety work can keep up, rather than halt model training\. Anthropic committed to giving independent evaluators permanent access to its systems comparable to that of employees, allowing them to verify safety practices, report incidents and assess models during training\. OpenAI’s Sam Altman backed the proposal and committed to sim

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/anthropics-amodei-floats-joint-ai-oversight-by-democratic-governments-fcbc7c99>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2099211348865658940>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/deredleritt3r/status/2099206271157109218>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2099217778121355723>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2099256269257265622>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/ben_burtenshaw/status/2099125998046351385>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/clashreport/status/2099151204731281562>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/MOSSADil/status/2099151119524217323>)

