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TechCrunch Industry News · As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Building open source AI in America is struggling to compete with open weight models coming out of China. voice-verified

And my worry is that if China figures out a fundamentally more cost efficient way to build AI, voice-verified

And things that are more cost efficient have a fundamental business adoption advantage. voice-verified

Lee pushed back on that framing, saying, it's very dangerous to make this a dichotomy between complete openness all the way to complete closedness. voice-verified

In complex software systems, as well as scientific systems, it's much more nuanced. voice-verified

Lee used nuclear physics as an example. voice-verified

Scientific papers are published openly, but uranium is regulated, while laboratory work falls somewhere in between. voice-verified

The lesson, she explained, was that openness doesn't have to be an all or nothing choice. voice-verified

Different layers of the ecosystem can operate at different levels of openness. voice-verified

Now she also highlighted collaborations between public and private institutions, such as the Human Genome Project. voice-verified

The resulting knowledge became a platform that others could build on, she said, allowing pharmaceutical companies to profit, scientists to advance their work, and society to benefit. voice-verified

Lee said, so I think we have to use AI as that kind of infrastructure. voice-verified

We need some levels of openness, both in scientific discovery and education and global partnership, as well as lucrative business models for entrepreneurs. voice-verified

But we also will accept closed source systems. voice-verified

This debate, especially at the sweeping level of we can only tolerate one, is a false debate. voice-verified

We need to get to a level of nuance. voice-verified

But everyone agreed that some level of regulation would be necessary to keep AI on the right track. voice-verified

Hinton said, what we want to do is develop AI in a direction that helps people. voice-verified

And regulation will help us do that. voice-verified

You can't leave it to people like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to decide how AI should be done. voice-verified

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