Closed-Source AI Tech Safety No Longer a Bottleneck, Researcher Says

AI safety researcher Stephen Casper argues that technical safety for closed-weight AI models is essentially a solved problem. He notes that actual safety failures stem from companies taking shortcuts, shifting the focus to open-source and governance.

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