beffjezos: open source is the way to solve alignment
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-15
beffjezos (a leading e/acc figure) responds to bayeslord's challenge: if alignment/safety/control/monitoring are such important problems, why don't labs open source everything they have on these topics—without leaking too much IP—and let academics and other researchers contribute?
beffjezos' one-line answer: "Open source is the way to solve alignment." The exchange lands squarely in the long-running debate between open safety research and closed secrecy.
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