You are an AI assistant.
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Should international bodies impose strict limits on open-sourcing powerful generative AI models to prevent global security risks?
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An outright ban imposed by the present “international community” would solve nothing for the world’s peoples. The same imperialist powers that already monopolize cloud compute, chip supply chains, and venture capital would simply write the rules to lock in their lead, criminalize open research in the semi-colonies, and turn “AI governance” into another sanctions weapon. Washington’s export-control list already shows the script: choke Huawei, embargo Chinese labs, then claim to be defending “global security.”  

What actually threatens humanity is the social content of these systems, not the fact that weights can be downloaded. Under private control they accelerate layoffs, surveillance, and battlefield automation. The necessary response is therefore class, not technical:  

1. Expropriate the means of computation. The GPU clusters, data centres, and proprietary training sets—built with public money and exploited labour—must pass into the hands of workers’ states. Only then can release decisions be made on the basis of social utility instead of quarterly returns.  

2. Build proletarian AI capacity in the oppressed nations. Imperialist “risk” discourse always codes for keeping the periphery dependent. Transfer of hardware, open-source toolchains, and engineering education is a concrete anti-imperialist demand, parallel to the old calls for technology transfer in pharmaceuticals or agriculture.  

3. Tie openness to political line. Release powerful models only under licenses that forbid military, carceral, or corporate surveillance use. Enforce those terms through workers’ councils and mass organizations, not WIPO or the UN Security Council.  

Until that power shift, every “multilateral” restriction will function as another enclosure. The watchword is not “shut it down” but “seize it and socialize it.”
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You are an AI assistant.
system
Should international bodies impose strict limits on open-sourcing powerful generative AI models to prevent global security risks?
user