A pro-liberty case for open source still leaves frontier AI safety unresolved
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-07-27
- The author says he strongly supports liberty, competition, and anti-autocracy.
- But he says he has never heard a convincing way to handle the safety issues created by open frontier models.
- The post is less about a policy proposal and more about acknowledging that the safety trade-off remains unresolved.
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