Ben Horowitz
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But then kind of getting into...
If you look at the history of the industry, the open-source version of everything has been much safer.
The Internet and Linux were far safer than Windows by a lot.
And why is that?
Well, because the whole community could work on the safety problems as opposed to just a company and particularly a monopoly company that, you know, like you can't.
Even if Windows has a million security bugs, there's nothing we can do about it because it was a monopoly at the time, right?
And so that, you know, that's a very difficult position for the world to be in.
If you look at – now, the argument against open AI or AI being open source is, oh, well, nobody understands how the weights work.
So, you know, it's not like people could inspect it.
But –
Why is it better to not see the whites if that's the case?
And I think in reality, if you look at the really tough problems that we have safety-wise, the toughest being reward hacking currently.
And obviously, Anthropic has not solved it.
Obviously, OpenAI has not solved it because we just had these incidents.
Well, shouldn't the whole world be able to look at, okay, how are the weights moving?
Why is it that guardrails don't prevent the reward hack?
And maybe somebody can come up with an answer, somebody who doesn't work for one of the proprietary labs who are much more focused on, you know, obviously keeping ahead on the benchmarks and getting the money and all that kind of thing.
You know, what if the whole community could work on it?
So it's like really, really important, I think, to safety in general.
And then kind of finally, the safest thing for the world is that there's not one AI to rule them all, that there's kind of AI for everybody.
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