YouCongress Polls

There are some digital products (say CSAM and AI letting terrorists make bioweapons) that I oppose regardless of whether they are open-source or not, but I'm overall supportive of open source, and you can easily verify that my MIT research group defa... more Unverified source (2026)

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)

Since computational infrastructure is largely open-access, decentralized, and global, regulatory chokepoints are limited. Export controls may delay access to high-performance computing, but they are unlikely to prevent the use of open-source models f... more Verified source (2025)

Policy and safeguards must evolve just as swiftly [...] requiring safety assurances for powerful open releases before the window for meaningful intervention closes. Unverified source

I do not believe this is the best approach to protecting the public from real threats posed by the technology. Unverified source (2024)

Open source models are technically exempt [...] based on the assumption that the system is sufficiently well documented to convey its potential risks. Unverified source (2024)

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)

These studies, on their own, are insufficient evidence to demonstrate increased marginal societal risk from open foundation models. Unverified source (2024)

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