Comment by Federation of American Scientists

Advanced model weights can be high-consequence assets. If stolen or openly released without adequate safeguards, they may allow actors to remove safety filters, fine-tune models for harmful uses, or reproduce capabilities that would otherwise remain ...

Support research into interpretability, robustness, control, and the preservation of monitorable AI reasoning.

Government needs trusted mechanisms for model access, evaluation partnerships, and incident reporting that protect sensitive commercial and national-security information while giving agencies enough visibility to act.