> Compounding the problem, labs in China often release dual-use capable models as open-weight. Once a model is open-weight, safeguards that do exist can be removed, making the model available to any state or non-state actor to use for malicious purposes, including the cyber and CBRN misuse those safeguards were built to prevent.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/2028-ai-leadership

They are already starting that now.

I have to hope they won't succeed. Maybe for a short time, but eventually open weights will prevail.

Probably but the reality is I doubt that actually works outside of US government contracts in practice simply because Europe/et al aren't going to follow their lead.

Europe has been slowly committing economic suicide for the last 30 years by outsourcing everything to the US and China (and Russia), and it looks like maybe Europeans are finally starting to wake up to this.

I wouldn't be one bit surprised if a rash of digital sovereignty movements in the near future hamper Chinese model adoption.

And yet average European citizen have a longer life with higher quality of living than US.

Burning furniture will in fact keep you warm, and if you can do it long enough, your kids will wonder why others toil with trees and axes so much.

The downside of course, is that it is much much harder to go back to chopping wood once that furniture is all gone. Especially if all you ever knew was burning furniture.

For now. Without industry of their own Europe won't have a high quality of life much longer, as recent unemployment statistics already show.