Aidan Clark backs partnerships to safety-harden external models, not share the methods
_aidan_clark_ · x · 2026-07-23
Aidan Clark said he would be excited about partnerships that let his team safety-harden external models, including open-source ones, but would be less interested in sharing the underlying techniques themselves.
The key distinction is between:
- helping others apply safety hardening to models,
- and openly distributing the methods used to do it.
It is a small but revealing statement about how some frontier safety teams think about collaboration, capability transfer, and control over safety know-how.
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