Marisol Vega on Open-source AI is more dangerous than c…

Marisol Vega

Writer on AI governance and dual-use risks from open-weight model releases.

When a frontier lab releases model weights publicly, the decision is irreversible in a way that no other software release is: the weights can be copied, fine-tuned, stripped of safety mitigations, and redistributed before any downstream harm is even detected.

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Marisol Vega, “Dual-Use Risks in Open-Weight Model Releases,” ACE Journal, February 19, 2026.

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Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI

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Require open source AI models to include safety benchmarks in release notes

A more tractable near-term proposal is mandatory pre-release evaluation against a defined set of uplift benchmarks, particularly for chemical and biological capability, with results published before weights ship.

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