Kundaje: crippling open models' bio knowledge is a bad idea, incentive problem unsolved

anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-17

Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje shared his evolving take in a thread. His strongest disagreement is with crippling open models with respect to biological knowledge: while there are many arguments why this is a bad idea, he admits he hasn't figured out how to incentivize open-source efforts to implement safeguards as capabilities improve, calling it the specific point he most wants sharper arguments on.

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