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Is open-source AI safer or riskier than closed/proprietary AI?
The question of whether open-source AI (frequently referred to in practice as open-weight AI, where model parameters are publicly downloadable) is safer or riskier than closed-source (proprietary) AI is one of the most intense debates in technology policy, national security, and computer science.
There is no simple consensus. Instead, the two paradigms present entirely different threat models an