Delaying the open release of a new capability by months or years is worth doing, even though preventing its spread indefinitely is not.

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  No regulation, a ban on open source included, can prevent self-sovereign AI; more open-weight models may be the better defence.

  Toner says delaying the open release of a new capability by months or years is worth doing even though preventing it is impossible. Ball says no regulation, a ban on open source included, can prevent self-sovereign AI, and that more open-weight models may be the better defence. They agree prevention fails and disagree entirely about whether delay is therefore worth buying.

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• Open frontier models will keep being released whether or not anyone wants to stop them, and stopping them would only leave the world less prepared. NLNathan Lambert3 Feb 2025similar wording
• Open models trailing the frontier by a few months is a good arrangement, because the industry needs a common working space it all has access to. AKAndrej Karpathy20 Mar 2026similar wording
• Even a long-horizon deep tech company should chase revenue sooner than it thinks, so that it is valued on its roadmap rather than on its probability of dying. MHMax Hodak7 Aug 2026similar wording
• Economic growth from AI waits on change management, not on model capability: the work artifact and the workflow have to change first. SNSatya Nadella12 Nov 2025similar wording
• Open-source models cannot keep frontier systems in check, because they will always be much dumber than the frontier. ACAjeya Cotra1 Sept 2026similar wording

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