Joshua Saxe: Curb AI cyber misuse without blocking open weights
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-10-21
Joshua Saxe argues against blocking open weights as a response to AI-enabled cyber attacks, noting open weights benefit defenders too. He proposes alternatives: open-weight inference providers should bear the same monitoring/blocking duty as closed providers; stronger national and international law enforcement against cyber criminals; continued improvement of hardware regimes to track and block attacker access to physical inference compute; and much better monitoring by closed inference providers.
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