The Global Story: The AI model that’s ‘too powerful’ to be released to the public
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Anthropic - one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI firms - recently announced that they have built a model which is too dangerous to be released to the public.
Instead, they are only giving access to the model to a handful of big companies, to help them find security vulnerabilities.The company says the model has already found weak spots in “every major operating system and web browser”. Is this a genuine example of a company acting responsibly, or more of a carefully calibrated publicity move?
We speak to the BBC’s North America tech correspondent, Lily Jamali, about whether this is a watershed moment.
The Global Story brings clarity to politics, business and foreign policy in a time of connection and disruption. For more episodes, just search 'The Global Story' wherever you get your BBC Podcasts.
Producers: Viv Jones and Aron Keller
Digital producer: Matt Pintus
Mix: Travis Evans
Executive producer: James Shield
Senior news editor: China Collins
Credit: Jurassic Park (1993) / Dir: Stephen Spielberg / Universal Pictures
Photo: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Reuters/Denis Balibouse.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.5 | With American politics, everything seems to be changing by the second. |
| 0:11.9 | Yeah, sometimes the news does a full 180 while we're recording the podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | It can be a difficult job, but we stay up to date on your behalf. |
| 0:19.9 | Make sense of what's happening in the US with new podcast episodes throughout the week. |
| 0:24.2 | America. |
| 0:25.1 | Listen on BBC Sound. |
| 0:27.7 | Hey there, I'm Asma Khalid. |
| 0:29.7 | And I'm Tristan Redmond, and we're here with a bonus episode for you from the Global Story |
| 0:34.2 | podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | The world order is shifting. |
| 0:36.8 | Old alliances are fraying and new ones are |
| 0:40.0 | emerging. Some of this turbulence can be traced to decisions made in the United States. But the |
| 0:45.6 | U.S. isn't just a cause of the upheaval. Its politics are also a symptom of it. Every day we focus on |
| 0:52.8 | one story, looking at how America and the world shape each other. |
| 0:57.1 | So we hope you enjoy this episode. |
| 0:59.0 | And to find more of our show, just search for The Global Story, wherever you get your BBC |
| 1:04.8 | podcasts. |
| 1:07.9 | Most of us have interacted with an AI chatbot for something by now. |
| 1:12.9 | ChatGPT, GROC, Gemini, there are many. |
| 1:17.2 | But recently, Anthropic, a leading AI company and parent of the chatbot Claude, |
| 1:23.0 | announced they've created a model that they say is too dangerous to be released to the public. |
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