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Comment by Michael Jacob
Council on Strategic Risks fellow
Via the Australia Group and the US Department of Commerce, the US Government should explicitly design export controls to limit open sourcing of the riskiest AI-enabled Biological Design Tools (BDTs). Since publishing a tool online can be considered an “export,” new export-control restrictions would necessarily limit the ability to freely open source a piece of software. This is a feature, not a bug, of the export control process, since open source should not be a loophole allowing for the proliferation of dangerous AI-enabled software.AI Verified source (2024)
7mo ago
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Quote authorship and content verified via web search. Michael Jacob is a CSR Visiting Fellow (also Horizon Institute fellow) whose research focuses on export controls for AI-enabled Biological Design Tools (BDTs). His July 12, 2024 CSR article 'Advances in AI and Increased Biological Risks' calls on the US Department of Commerce and Australia Group to implement controls that limit open-sourcing of risky AI-enabled BDTs — exactly the position quoted. councilonstrategicrisks.org URL returns 403 to WebFetch but the article and Jacob's authorship are corroborated by his Horizon profile, CSR's follow-up articles, and SIPRI 2025 references. Vote on 'Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs' set to 'for' (was null), aligning with his explicit recommendation to restrict open sourcing of WMD-relevant AI tools via export controls. Year 2024.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1mo ago
replying to Michael Jacob