Comment by Guy Ward-Jackson

Governments should make building and maintaining open-source tools a cornerstone of their national AI strategies, recognising that both value and resilience lie not only in AI models themselves, but also in the software layers that underpin them, and the tools and applications that enable real-world usage. [...] Establish a national open-source trust fund to provide sustainable funding for software maintenance or, in some cases, for building brand new tools where this is deemed to be of security or strategic importance. [...] Establish a national programme of red-teaming competitions to identify systemic software risks in critical digital infrastructure. Governments should run recurring, structured exercises targeting deep layers of the software stack – especially open components underpinning public-sector systems – and publish the resulting vulnerability data.