Comment by National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

Dual-use foundation models with widely available model weights could plausibly exacerbate the risks AI models pose to public safety by allowing a wider range of actors, including irresponsible and malicious users, to leverage the existing capabilities of these models and augment them to create more dangerous systems. [...] Widely available model weights could potentially exacerbate the risk that non-experts use dual-use foundation models to design, synthesize, produce, acquire, or use, chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) weapons.