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

We now have open weight models, so the barrier to lots of people getting these big models, which was the cost of training foundation models, that barrier has disappeared. voice-verified

It's too late. voice-verified

Yet accepting reality is voice-verified

didn't mean ignoring the risks. voice-verified

Hinton's position was clear. voice-verified

AI would continue to advance, and he thought that was largely a good thing. voice-verified

He said it would boost productivity and improve education and health care. voice-verified

He added, voice-verified

Worrying about the possible bad effects of AI and the things that intelligent beings might do when they're smarter than us, I don't think that's unfair. voice-verified

I think it is unfair to label anybody who thinks like that as a fearmonger. voice-verified

Ng took a different view. voice-verified

The question, he argued, wasn't whether open models were risky, but who controlled access and who would win the market. voice-verified

Whoever built the cheaper model would have the advantage. voice-verified

If China's open weight models gained widespread adoption across Asia, Africa, voice-verified

And or the developing world, he warned. voice-verified

They could influence how billions of people encountered ideas about democracy, freedom, and human rights. voice-verified

Ng went on to say, one thing I hope we do is encourage American competitiveness and open source AI. voice-verified

It turns out that AI is a tremendous source of soft power. voice-verified

You can see the way China's model has tremendous accomplishment with Africa, for example. voice-verified

But my worry is because of all the lobbying in the US and the fear-mongering. voice-verified

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