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David Gray Widder

Assistant professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Information

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“Openness is a floor, not a ceiling, for what we need to do to ensure that our technological futures benefit everyone.”
Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?MIT Technology Review, October 13, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. David Gray Widder of the University of Texas at Austin, as quoted, on what openness does and does not achieve.

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    Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?

    MIT Technology Review's explainer weighs open-weight AI models, prompted by Anthropic's report arguing that the open model GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk. It sets benefits (research access, lower costs, less concentrated power) against risks (no filters or account shutdowns for downloaded models, easily removed safety training), and reports experts' middle paths such as staged release.