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As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
Publisher description: At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.
TechCrunch | Aug 12, 2026 | Kate Park
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As projects like Pacing the Frontier look to major labs as a way to keep AI research safe, open source models have become a sore spot for the industry. And while they disagreed on particular tactics, all three made a powerful case for keeping AI open. Hinton, in particular, drew a distinction between open source software, which makes the underlying code available for inspection and modification, and open-weight models, which release the parameters of a trained AI model to the public. “Open source is great.
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