Miles Brundage: stopping AI weight theft should be the top AI policy priority
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-14
Former OpenAI policy head Miles Brundage lays out why preventing AI theft and tampering is his top AI policy priority.
- Independent experts estimate frontier labs are years away from defending AI tech against well-resourced nation-state attacks — even if they try hard.
- The timing gap matters: AI capabilities are advancing fast (frontier models already beat all but a few hundred humans at competitive coding), so stolen tech would be increasingly dangerous.
- He distinguishes security (theft/tampering) from safety (accidents) and argues policy should prioritize the former now.
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