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The question of whether open-source AI is safer or riskier than closed-source (proprietary) AI is one of the most hotly contested debates in modern technology policy, ethics, and national security. There is no simple consensus. Instead, the two approaches represent fundamentally different philosophies of security: safety through transparency and decentralization (open-source) versus safety throu

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