Elizabeth Seger
Senior policy advisor, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
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“I think we’re at this juncture where the question of who controls the infrastructure that allows AI to operate is as big of a question as who gets to control information on the internet.”
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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.