What Helen Toner thinks about open source

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Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a former member of OpenAI's board. Writes Rising Tide, on how AI actually progresses and what policy can do about it.

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1. 5 Apr 2025

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

   Their wordsThe 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.

   ↗Nonproliferation is the wrong approach to AI misusehelentoner.substack.com 3rd of 5 in this piece