Comment by AI Futures Project

Plan A is not that crazy, but it’s close: the algorithms are mandated to be open source, and while the weights aren’t (in fact the weights are banned from being OS), access to the weights is mandated to be open; members of the public can do evaluations (including fine-tuning!) on frontier models just like employees can (under conditions of total transparency, that is, so they can’t turn around and use the model for actual work). We think that open algorithms plus open access gets most of the benefit of mandating open-weights, without the cost that bad actors can strip off the guardrails and build bioweapons.