Open-weights supply chain risk debate: should the US restrict Chinese open models?
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-10-22
Beff Jezos argues Chinese models now carry botnet potential as a supply-chain risk and urges the US government to fund open source models. Joseph Jacks pushes back: attackers using Chinese open weights isn't grounds to blame openness—the real question is how much extra offensive capability weight access adds versus alternatives, weighed against defensive gains. Equal access doesn't cancel risk since deployment speed matters, but restricting defenders while adversaries keep access worsens the imbalance, especially given how far behind the US is on open source.
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