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Is open-source AI safer or riskier than closed/proprietary AI?
The question of whether open-source (specifically "open-weight") AI is safer or riskier than closed-source (proprietary) AI is one of the most critical debates in technology policy, ethics, and national security.
There is no consensus on which approach is absolutely safer. Instead, they possess entirely different risk profiles. What one model mitigates, the other often exacerbates.
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