Halvar Flake: pro internal isolation, against crackdowns on open weights
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-13
Halvar Flake says he's open-minded on slowing AI, supports "proper internal isolation", and views the Hugging Face leak as a symptom of looseness rather than agent capabilities. But he opposes anything that could be used to crack down on open weights, and rejects METR as a scientific or independent auditor.
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