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Is open-source AI safer or riskier than closed/proprietary AI?
The question of whether open-source AI is safer or riskier than closed (proprietary) AI is one of the most hotly contested debates in technology, policy, and national security.
In this context, "open-source" typically refers to "open-weight" models (where the underlying code, architecture, and mathematical weights are publicly downloadable and modifiable, such as Meta’s Llama or Mistral’s models