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Comment by Kawin Ethayarajh
Assistant Professor of Applied AI at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; machine learning researcher (PhD, Stanford)
Whereas historically it might have taken a more informed and persistent actor [to strip out safety features], nowadays it's much easier for the average person.
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(2026)
5h ago
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Quote (2026) confirmed accurate. The futurism.com source URL returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but I independently verified the quote via web search: multiple outlets (Futurism, Irish Times, Techstrong.ai) reporting on a Financial Times investigation attribute this exact statement to Kawin Ethayarajh, Assistant Professor of Applied AI at the University of Chicago Booth School — matching the author attribution. The quote concerns how tools like 'Heretic' make it easy to strip safety features from open-source models, supporting the statement 'Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI.' The vote 'for' correctly aligns with the quote's meaning. Author, content, year, source contents, and vote direction all check out.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 4h ago
replying to Kawin Ethayarajh