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Higher security: Closed models have more safeguards. However, they also make certain safety measures harder, such as red teaming and mechanistic interpretability. Lower security: Open-weight systems are harder to monitor and regulate and can easily be fine-tuned to remove safeguards.

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Government Office for Science, “AI Scenarios 2030: Helping policymakers plan for the future of AI,” UK Government, June 2026.

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

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AI Verified The source says open-weight systems are harder to monitor and can lose safeguards, supporting greater danger. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Source describes open-weight systems as harder to monitor and easy to strip safeguards, supporting the recorded for answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified GOV.UK AI Scenarios 2030 contains the quoted closed/open-weight security passage. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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