Prof G Markets · Sunday, November 1, 2026
Misha Laskin warned that while Chinese open-weight models benefit developers, they pose a national security risk if allied nations become dependent on foreign software stacks and associated hardware infrastructure like chips and data centers.
“What that will lead to is that open models are They're kind of you can think about as Trojan horses for the infrastructure that they bring because again, it's just the engine You need the car around it and what's the car? Well, it's the chips”
“And what that means is that other governments, allied nations, will start getting locked into Chinese infrastructure. And that is really the risk to the United States from a national security perspective.”