I do not. A ban on capable open-weight models for an indefinite period of time falls into the category of bans on open-weight models. If you wanted Anthropic's statement to be true you would need to qualify "ban" or "open-weight models" in the statement, e.g. "permanent ban" or "safe open-weight models".

Edit: Anthropic clearly intended this statement to deflect criticism, but in order to achieve that goal they stretched too far and made a statement which is false. Furthermore, I argue that "open weights" implies an ability to modify model behavior, just as "open source" implies an ability to modify software. If for example some mechanism was found to share floating point numbers that are encrypted in some way so as to allow running a model but disallow behavior modification, that model would not be "open weights", in the same way that releasing obfuscated source code that can be compiled but is designed to resist modification would not qualify as an "open source" release. So I don't really see how any capable model could ever be both "open weights" and "safe" under Anthropic's preferred testing regime, regardless of future research progress.

I think we agree on all specifics now and just fighting for terminology. Thanks for the discussion!