This letter is so full of contradictions.

> Open-weights models that don’t have dangerous capabilities are a public good

There are no models that don't have dangerous capabilities. There is not a single human in the world that doesn't have a dangerous capability.

> authoritarian government [] build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US

Yeah, they will do that no matter whether you support the existence of open weight models or don't. In fact, they have probably already done that. I would say "deal with it" but there is nothing you can do actually.

> authoritarian regimes have stolen and used AI

Monkey looking away meme.jpg

> powerful AI models may be misused

Small AI models may be misused just as well. I would say it's the small models that are the problem: cheaply deployable, easily fine-tunable, fast.

> once weights are released they cannot be withdrawn

Exactly. It has been already done. So?

> We should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China

I agree. We should have competition and I'm rooting for China to design their own chips. They wouldn't if we let them buy our's.

> We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations

Well, at this time it's already irrelevant. We have GLM-2, DeepSeek, K3, which are already SOTA and can be used for distillation.

> All sufficiently capable models [] should go through mandatory safety testing

Problem is, it's unenforceable legally. Models are just math and all previous attempts to ban maths have failed and simply pushed US back. I will not be asking US government permission to calculate matrixes of my choice.