Safety advocates should target closed-source AI before open-source AI, repost says
karmicoder · x · 2026-07-26
A repost argues that people who genuinely care about safety would ban closed-source AI before even considering a ban on open-source AI.
It is a compact but sharp safety-position statement: the real policy target, in this view, should be opaque systems rather than open ones.
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