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David Evan Harris

UC Berkeley public scholar, tech policy advisor

Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous [...] As things stand today, unsecured AI poses an enormous risk that we are not yet able to contain.

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

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AI Verified The quote explicitly says 'Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous' and describes unsecured AI as an enormous risk, which clearly implies the author sees open-source AI as especially or more dangerous than closed-source AI. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Unverifiable The quote says "Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous" and that "unsecured AI poses an enormous risk," but it does not explicitly compare open-source AI with closed-source AI or clearly say it is more dangerous overall. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Verified Verified: the IEEE Spectrum page at the provided URL is an article by David Evan Harris dated 2024-01-12. It contains the exact headline 'Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous' and also the exact sentence 'As things stand today, unsecured AI poses an enormous risk that we are not yet able to contain.' Harris's IEEE Spectrum author page also lists this article on 12 Jan 2024, so the stored author, date, source URL, and quoted text are consistent. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

Disputed At the cited IEEE Spectrum page for David Evan Harris’s 12 Jan. 2024 article, the exact headline is “Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous,” and the body separately says, “as things stand today, unsecured AI poses an enormous risk that we are not yet able to contain.” But the submitted text combines the headline with a later sentence using an ellipsis, so it is not a single continuous verbatim quotation from the source. ([spectrum.ieee.org](https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-source-ai-2666932122)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

AI Verified Verified via web search. The article "Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous" was published by David Evan Harris on IEEE Spectrum in February 2024. Web search confirms both the article title and the quote "As things stand today, unsecured AI poses an enormous risk that we are not yet able to contain." Harris is correctly identified as UC Berkeley chancellor's public scholar and tech policy advisor. The vote "for" aligns with the statement "Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI." Source URL was blocked by anti-bot (403) but content is fully indexed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 5mo ago

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Require open source AI models to include safety benchmarks in release notes

Unsecured “open-source” AI systems pose a massive series of threats [...]. They deserve no exemptions and should be regulated just like other high-risk AI systems.

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