Hamish Hobbs
Director of AI policy, Centre for Long-Term Resilience
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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.