Open weights' benefits to alignment science are real but ignored, researcher argues
1a3orn · x · 2026-09-15
Researcher 1a3orn argues that no one has compiled open weights' benefits to alignment science into a government-palatable PDF—not because the benefits are small, but because they clash with prevailing ideology. He lists four overlooked gains: better alignment research, common knowledge of model behavior, less rent extraction, and less surveillance over model use.
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