Comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky

But open sourcing, you know, that's just sheer catastrophe. The whole notion of open sourcing, this was always the wrong approach, the wrong ideal. There are places in the world where open source is a noble ideal and building stuff you don't understand that is difficult to control, that where if you could align it, it would take time. You'd have to spend a bunch of time doing it. That is not a place for open source, because then you just have powerful things that just go straight out the gate without anybody having had the time to have them not kill everyone. AI Verified source (2023)
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AI Verified Verified via web search. Quote is from Eliezer Yudkowsky on Lex Fridman Podcast #368 (March 2023). Direct fetch returned 403 but search results confirmed the wording, including 'open sourcing it, no, that's just sheer catastrophe' and 'The whole notion of open sourcing, this was always the wrong approach.' Vote 'for' on 'Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs' aligns with Yudkowsky's strong stance against open-sourcing dangerous AI systems. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 13d ago
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