Open Models and Power Concentration: AI Researchers Clash Over the Tradeoffs
1a3orn · x · 2026-09-15
AI researcher 1a3orn pushed back on @tenobrus's skepticism about open models, listing four concrete benefits: better alignment science, better common knowledge of model behavior, less extractable rent, and less surveillance over model use.
Responding to the objection that open models "don't solve concentration of power," he argues the right question is whether they help relative to the alternatives — not whether they fully solve the problem.
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