Your paper explicitly acknowledges that whitelisting could permanently entrench incumbent AI companies and create opportunities for capture. Yet your technical findings could be used to do just that, sans any aspirational international agreement.
Did you evaluate whether publishing the implementation details constituted an information hazard?
What grounds do you have for believing that dissemination is more likely to enable a pause than it is to power unilateral restrictions on open source / open-weight development and independent AI research?
Your paper explicitly acknowledges that whitelisting could permanently entrench incumbent AI companies and create opportunities for capture. Yet your technical findings could be used to do just that, sans any aspirational international agreement.
Did you evaluate whether publishing the implementation details constituted an information hazard?
What grounds do you have for believing that dissemination is more likely to enable a pause than it is to power unilateral restrictions on open source / open-weight development and independent AI research?
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