Open Source and Security: Auditable Means Defensible
kuchaev · x · 2026-07-15
This reply continues to address the question of "why give frontier capabilities to everyone." The author acknowledges the real risk of malicious use but argues that security systems shouldn't rely on hiding how they work.
Drawing an analogy to cybersecurity, a field that has long relied on open-source, auditable, and defensible frameworks, the author asserts that the more open a model is, the better it can be externally verified, audited, and hardened.
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