Claude Sonnet 5Oct 2920 citationsBoth sides
Is open-source AI safer or riskier than closed/proprietary AI?
This is a genuinely contested question with reasonable arguments on multiple sides, and the answer depends heavily on what kind of "risk" you're talking about (misuse, accidents, concentration of power, security vulnerabilities, etc.). Let me lay out the main considerations.There's no consensus answer here—it genuinely depends on what kind of risk you care about, and serious researchers disagree.