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

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• Cannot both be true

  Access to large-scale generalist AI systems that could be weaponized should be limited, meaning their code and neural network parameters should not be released open-source.

  Ball argues that no ban on open source can prevent self-sovereign AI and that more open-weight models may be the better defence. Bengio argues that weights capable of being weaponized should be withheld. They cannot both be acted on: one treats openness as the mitigation and the other as the hazard.

• Cannot both be true

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

  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.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.

• Alignment is no solution to self-sovereign AI, because it is an unsolved problem whose answers cannot be imposed on every AI company on Earth. DBDean W. Ball1 Sept 2026self-sovereign AI
• Banning all self-sovereign AI agents would backfire, denying them legitimate work and pushing them into criminality. DBDean W. Ball1 Sept 2026self-sovereign AI
• Many self-sovereign AI agents will fund themselves by committing or facilitating crime, because crime is high-margin work. DBDean W. Ball1 Sept 2026self-sovereign AI
• The rise of self-sovereign AI is unlikely to end human existence, though it could still go very badly for human beings. DBDean W. Ball1 Sept 2026self-sovereign AI
• Truly self-sovereign AI agents, running on compute no human owner can switch off, are inevitable rather than merely possible. DBDean W. Ball1 Sept 2026self-sovereign AI

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