An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
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Open-weight mandates would slow AI progress by deflating proprietary model valuations.
The author argues that requiring companies to release public model weights would reduce investor funding for frontier training runs, using the PBC status of Anthropic to urge Dario Amodei to support such a law. The proposal claims this avoids regulatory capture inherent in Dario's embedded evaluator approach.
The author frames this as a concrete sacrifice that would actually slow progress, unlike Dario's plan which depends on international coordination.
What commenters are saying
Top commenters heavily critique the plan as incoherent, arguing it would destroy US companies while handing open weights to foreign labs like China, which could then continue proprietary development without regulation. Some defend the logic as a 'scorched earth' deceleration strategy.
The author responds that a US law could apply to any company selling model access to Americans, and that the frontier is predominantly funded and located in the US, limiting offshore escape.