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Is open-source AI safer or riskier than closed/proprietary AI?
The debate over whether open-source (or open-weight) AI is safer or riskier than closed-source (proprietary) AI is one of the most critical and highly contested issues in technology policy and AI safety.
The short answer is that neither paradigm is inherently safer; rather, they present different types of risks and safety benefits. Whether one is "safer" depends heavily on which vectors of threa