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Delaying the open release of a new capability by months or years is worth doing, even though preventing its spread indefinitely is not.
Drawn from what Helen Toner said
What Helen Toner actually said
- Helen Toner Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security…
The current status quo—where new models that push the frontier are kept private, and openly available equivalents are only released after a lag of months or years—is valuable.
Where this was said
↗Nonproliferation is the wrong approach to AI misusehelentoner.substack.com
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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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