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Multiple readings Our position on open-weights models Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings We Must Act Now Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions
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Developing Models & releases Analysis 1d ago
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Anthropic open-weights position statement

Our position on open-weights models

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Sung Kim James MacGlashan Dare Obasanjo Larry Hunter Fran Litterio +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...”

5 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Ted Underwood: I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company i…
Ted Underwood: (just, say, hypothetically?) There's also internal incoherence in making the first part of this all about moralized great-power competition and then saying that safety testing (incl for alignment r…
SE Gyges: he kisses jd vance's ass and fails to specify anything concerning his proposed evaluation regime that distinguishes it from a ban solid dario post 10/10
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Established AI field signal Development 15d ago
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Nobel laureates AI economic action call

We Must Act Now

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“200 AI researchers and economists sign an open letter to policymakers www.wemustactnow.ai” evidence ↗
8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Yoshua Bengio Olivia Guest Tim Kellogg tante Gillian Hadfield Jeffrey Vagle Paul Hünermund Michiel Bontenbal
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“If current trajectories of AI development continue, it is highly plausible that AI will drastically transform our economies. We must make collective, democratic choices, rather than letting market forces play out and risking leaving most citizens behind. di…”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“200 AI researchers and economists sign an open letter to policymakers www.wemustactnow.ai”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“I joined over 200 economists and AI researchers in signing "We Must Act Now" a statement on AI's transformation of the economy. AI could reshape the economy at unprecedented speed. The opportunities are enormous and so are the challenges. We need to start p…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
tante: Oh, is it "AI is super powerful and we who are pushing for AI everywhere warn that we might have created a dangerous god from reddit posts" time of the month again? This is Anthropic/OpenAI PR and …
tante: nope that's it. These folks are getting lazier by the day
tante: Yeah. They spend just a handful of tokens on this website.
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Primary source wemustactnow.ai ↗
Established Policy & governance Analysis 12d ago
Dean Ball AI policy commentary post

Dean W. Ball (@deanwball) on X

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“AI Communism commenting on K3, Dean Ball, head of public policy at OpenAI, describes some of why China may be firmly backing open models x.com/deanwball/st...” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg

“AI Communism commenting on K3, Dean Ball, head of public policy at OpenAI, describes some of why China may be firmly backing open models x.com/deanwball/st...”

3 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Tim Kellogg: AI Communism commenting on K3, Dean Ball, head of public policy at OpenAI, describes some of why China may be firmly backing open models x.com/deanwball/st...
Tim Kellogg: imo “AI Communism” is just Dean’s derogatory way of referring to nationalizing labs, which Trump is also a fan of
Evangelos Kazakos: To start with, it's very different what Dean Ball means by "dystopian hellscape" and what normal people mean by it. For him, just the fact that AI will be free is most probably the "dystopian hells…
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4 experts · 7 posts · 19d ago
Tim Kellogg James MacGlashan Andres Guadamuz Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Matches Policy & governance
“I mostly don't any more, but when I did it was under the premise that people were looking for honest disagreement. Continuously banging my head against a wall of wilful ignorance got old fast.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: Someone on the Internet is *wrong*
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: Soft targets I am but meat
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3 experts · 5 posts · 12d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Scott H. Hawley
Matches Policy & governance
“what!? but that would require a mixed economy, where free enterprise coexists with public goods and regulation” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: Choose one: 1. SV platform duopoly with lock-in and rent extraction 2. Communist State AI people who imagine a third option might be possible are utopian dreamers with no understanding of history
Tim Kellogg: US-China duopoly with lockin and tax extraction?
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2 experts · 10 posts · 10d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg
Matches Policy & governance
“i think it’s incredibly important to recognize that the Chinese government is facilitating the Chinese open source models, and they are indeed getting their money’s worth out of the investment, in …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Tim Kellogg: wat? hamburgers can’t be copied and pasted
Ted Underwood: Among the unfounded assumptions here: 1 research has to be centralized 2 we know what the necessary pace is 3 the only business model is "sell a general-purpose LLM for all applications"
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