Anthropic defends AI usage oversight as it opens Singapore office

Co-founder Benjamin Mann says the dual-use nature of powerful AI models means the company will not fully step back from monitoring how customers use them Anthropic wants Singapore’s business. It does not want to stop watching how its most powerful models get used. Co-founder Benjamin Mann said Wednesday that the Claude developer is unwilling to give up all oversight of customer usage. He cited the dual-use nature of advanced AI, meaning the same model that drafts a policy memo could, in the wrong hands, help with something far less benign. The comments landed during Anthropic’s Singapore launch. That timing matters, because governments across the region increasingly want AI providers to keep sensitive data close to home and out of a vendor’s line of sight.

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