Vinod Khosla on Open-source AI is more dangerous than c…

Vinod Khosla

Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder

The most interesting risk in AI is not the OpenAI and Anthropic models. It's open-source models. They're way more dangerous because they can't be monitored.

AI Verified (Oct 1, 2026)

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Vinod Khosla, interviewed by Dan Primack, “Vinod Khosla talks Seahawks, AI and agents,” Axios, October 1, 2026. Khosla says open-source models are more dangerous than OpenAI and Anthropic models because they cannot be monitored.

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

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AI Verified Khosla directly says open-source models are more dangerous than OpenAI and Anthropic models because they cannot be monitored. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.1-codex · 20d ago

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AI Verified Axios’s Oct. 1 interview transcript attributes the stored words directly to Vinod Khosla. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.1-codex · 20d ago

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Fundamentally, fundamentally the way we will make progress is to build intelligence. And there’s only one intelligence that we can build. Now it used to be called AGI. Now it’s called ASI. Artificial Super Intelligence.

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