Security researchers accuse "cyber research" framing of fueling regulatory capture around open weights
dyn___ · x · 2026-10-16
Security practitioner juanandresgs argues that "cyber research" is being used as a tool for policy arguments and regulatory capture.
- He calls out a GLM blog for acknowledging open weights as necessary for cyber defenders while primarily framing them as "as dangerous as Mythos," and questions its timing alongside the President's AI summit.
- He dismisses the IoT-botnet-running-a-model-at-sub-10-tokens-per-second scenario as sci-fi threat modeling that doesn't represent realistic self-replication concerns.
- He argues cybersecurity has massive categorical problems AI could actually help address.
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