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Comment by Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner
I think it's really important, because when we put open source out there for something that could be dangerous, which is a tiny minority of all the code that's open source, essentially we're opening the door to all the bad actors. And as these systems become more capable, bad actors don't need to have very strong expertise, whether it's in bioweapons or cybersecurity, in order to take advantage of systems like this.Verified source (Jul 25, 2023)
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Verified relevant. Bengio warns that releasing dangerous open-source systems opens the door to bad actors and lowers the expertise needed for misuse, supporting restrictions on open-source AI models capable of enabling WMD harms.
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The Register article at the supplied URL does contain this exact wording and attributes it to Yoshua Bengio. However, the official published Senate hearing transcript gives a different opening wording—e.g., “when we put open source out there for something that could be dangerous” and “we’re opening the door to all the bad actors”—even though the later clause about bad actors not needing strong expertise is substantially the same. So this is best treated as a close edited rendering, not a verified verbatim quote from the primary record. ([theregister.com](https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/28/ai_senate_bioweapon/))
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