Open Source is the True Bedrock of AI Safety, Argues Researcher
rbhar90 · x · 2026-08-04
The author strongly pushes back against the notion of achieving AI safety through secrecy. They argue that no single entity—especially for-profit corporations like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google DeepMind—can be trusted as the sole steward of AI. Open source enables external scientists to scrutinize safety mechanisms and maintains a game-theoretic balance of power.
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