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Comment by James Landay

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Denning Director of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI).
Open weights are progress. You can download the model, run it on your own machine, keep it out of someone else’s data pipeline. But you still can’t see how the thing was built, what it was trained on, or why it behaves the way it does. That’s not an open model. That’s open distribution.
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James Landay, quoted in Stanford HAI, “Open-Weight Models Aren’t Enough. We Need Truly Open Source AI Models for Science and Society,” August 4, 2026.
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Require frontier AI labs to conduct nearly all R&D publicly but keep the weights closed
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