Emad Mostaque and AI safety proponent both choose releasing weights over pause
rand_longevity · x · 2026-09-02
In a debate, Stable Diffusion founder Emad Mostaque and Roman Yampolskiy, who coined the term 'AI safety,' were forced to choose between: A. permanently pausing all frontier AI training, or B. releasing all frontier model weights to the public. Both chose B (release weights), while the host disagreed.
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