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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-source (proprietary) AI is one of the most fiercely debated topics in technology, policy, and national security.
To understand the debate, it is helpful to first distinguish between fully open-source AI (where the training data, code, and architecture are public) and open-weight AI (where only the pre-trained model weights ar