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endowing rogue nations or terrorists with tools to synthesize a deadly virus. [...] keep the “weights” of the most powerful models out of the public’s hands. Unverified source (2025)

Someday AIs really will be able to make nukes or pull off $500 million hacks. At that point, companies will have to certify that their model has been trained not to do this, and that it will stay trained. But if it were open-source, then anyone could... more Verified source (2024)

As the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has assessed, AI models have the potential to enable advanced military and intelligence applications; lower the barriers to entry for nonexperts to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD); supp... more Verified source (2025)

Professor Geoffrey Hinton: The idea of opening up to all humanity sounds like open sourcing. It might be what I mean. But when you open source a big model and give people the weights that's not at all like open weights is not like open source. Open s... more Unverified source (2025)

there has to be full open source here. [...] if you're worried about AI-generated pathogens, [...] Let's do a Manhattan Project for biological defense. Unverified source (2023)

We know for a fact that open-source software platforms are both more powerful and more secure than the closed-source versions. Unverified source (2024)

We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source. Unverified source (2025)

The thought of open source AGI being released before we have worked out how to regulate these very powerful AI systems is really very scary, Unverified source (2024)

LLMs, such as GPT-4 and its successors, might provide dual-use information and thus remove some barriers encountered by historical biological weapons efforts. [...] BDTs may enable the creation of pandemic pathogens substantially worse than anything ... more Verified source (2023)

You can see exactly what is being done, because all the code is published so it can be publicly audited. Unverified source (2025)

current evidence is not sufficient [...] (but) take steps to ensure that the government is prepared to act if heightened risks emerge. Verified source (2024)

"If you put a model into the open, it isn't going to have guard rails built into it," Aguirre said. Unverified source (2024)

But today, going, banning open source, preventing it from happening is really a way, well, to enforce regulatory capture, even though the actors that would benefit from it don’t want it to happen. […] If you actually ban small actors from doing thing... more Unverified source (2023)

Open-source AI fosters innovation, improves security, and lowers costs—critical benefits for businesses, researchers, and everyday users around the world. Unverified source (2025)

Encouraging companies to keep the details of their models secret is likely to lead to “serious downstream consequences for transparency, public awareness, and science.” […] Anyone in the world can read them and develop their own models, she says. Unverified source (2024)