Restricting US AI models does not work: China builds better ones and everyone switches to them.

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  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.

  Levels says restricting US models simply moves everyone onto better Chinese ones, so the restriction fails on its own terms. Bengio says the dangerous weights should be withheld anyway. The disagreement is factual before it is moral — whether withholding accomplishes anything at all.

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