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I think both can be true: AI development must be slowed, but also question the motives of those in the lead given the stark benefits it gives those in the lead.

I'll get down-voted again by those who have a stake in this race, but I believe the long-term freedom and benefit for "everyone" will come from being able to run models locally.

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I agree that we need more nuanced complex takes on the situation... But also, if the problem is that AIs are starting to hack random website against their owners' instructions, open-weights AI isn't going to help that much.

Right now, only a few labs have the resources to run frontier-level capabilities or large, open-weight LLMs that are effectively frontier.

Better attention can be given to open-weight LLMs that can be run locally and to help defend against attacks, filter against questionable content, etc. and without giving up privacy; but there’s apparently little to no incentive beyond the next great coding agent like Qwen 3.8.

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