Risky Business · Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Halvar Flake's perspective suggests a higher risk from the concentration of power in AI models than from proliferation. James Wilson agrees that while guardrails have flaws, they also serve purposes, but the argument for completely unrestricted open weights models doesn't hold up over time.
“if you consider the concentration risk versus the proliferation risk when it comes to these models, uh, he considers the concentration risk to be higher than the proliferation risk, right?”
“The big hacking campaigns will go away pretty quickly. The deep fakes and enforcement question is, this is Halva's take, you know, he thinks that open is probably better.”
“But the argument just doesn't hold up over time. And, uh, for Halvar's quote, I, I'd like to believe the hacking campaigns go away. I don't know that that's true, but I think the point about concentration of power is, is well made.”