Scholar Challenges Open-Weight AI Risk Claims

A scholar pushed back on an OpenAI executive’s claim that open-weight AI creates added risk, arguing the debate lacks historical perspective on the role of open source in software development. The response says relabeling AI as a novel kind of tool does not change core principles, and that society has long absorbed risk and disorder on the internet while still benefiting from openness.

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