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Comment by Dr Moez Draief

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Managing Director, Mozilla.ai
Open source provides an opportunity for many people to examine those technologies, to test them in a variety of settings and to provide fixes [...]
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Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI
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AI Verified In context, this quote is part of the witness’s direct answer to a regulator’s question about safety in the open-vs-closed-source AI debate. He argues that open source enables broader examination, testing, and fixing of problems, and contrasts that with relying on a few engineers and with "security through secrecy," so it clearly bears on whether open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI and makes opposition substantially more likely. ([committees.parliament.uk](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/13802/html/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
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AI Verified In context, the speaker uses this as a safety argument for openness: open source lets many people 'examine' the technology, 'test' it, and 'provide fixes,' and he says secrecy would limit chances to uncover problems. That implies opposition to the claim that open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI. ([committees.parliament.uk](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/13802/html/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago

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AI Verified Verified. The submitted URL is a corrected UK Parliament transcript dated Wednesday 8 November 2023, and at lines 44–46 it attributes to Dr Moez Draief the sentence beginning “Open source provides an opportunity for many people” and continuing with the submitted wording through “provide fixes to problems that arise.” The bracketed ellipsis is a faithful omission, so the quote is authentic and the stored author, date, and source are consistent with the record. ([committees.parliament.uk](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/13802/html/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
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