Nathan Lambert @natolambert

Too many people assume that as RSI kicks in, open weight models don't matter. In practice, RSI won't be a binary and the open-source stack becomes how many capabilities are rapidly diffused globally. If you don't control the substrate of diffusion (open models) these dynamics are far less controllable as country. I consider this a common blind spot of some safety oriented thinking. [引用 @Shalev_lif]: Yesterday, we released a cyberdefense strategy for superintelligence: Secure Acceleration. Here are our calls to action: 1. We must build a competitive American open-source model and invent ways to detect AI sabotage 2. Containment should become a national security priority and we must develop capabilities to shut down untethered models 3. We must secure frontier model weights and RSI without…

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