Spencer E. Amdur on AI

Spencer E. Amdur

Legal scholar at Yale Law School researching governance and safety of powerful open AI models.

Closed-model developers should share advances in capability testing, either publicly or directly with open labs.

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Spencer E. Amdur, “Frontier Safety for Powerful Open Models,” SSRN, posted July 11, 2026.

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Spencer E. Amdur votes For

Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs

Capability testing must be the primary input for open-release decisions because open-weight mitigation remains unreliable, and labs and governments must identify models that are too dangerous for unrestricted release.

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Spencer E. Amdur votes For

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

Because open-weight safeguards can often be removed, public release of such models may make it impossible to prevent a wide range of actors from accessing dangerous capabilities.