Aidan Gomez: a few Silicon Valley firms shouldn't be AI's gatekeeper — sparking open-source debate
Justin_Halford_ · x · 2026-09-15
Cohere founder Aidan Gomez argued that the idea of two or three Silicon Valley companies acting as creator, gatekeeper and rulemaker of AI for every government on earth "doesn't survive being said out loud." Justin Halford pushed back on the tradeoffs: everyone having access to abliterated open-source models with superhuman hacking abilities also needs to be reckoned with openly. He criticized insular faction formation and called for more nuanced dialog on open vs. centralized AI governance.
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