An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights! Sep 12, 2026 Dear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altman agreed within hours.1 I believe you’re being sincere, so I’m asking you to call for a different law, one that would actually slow things down, even though it would require real sacrifice on your part.
- ▪An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights!
- ▪Sep 12, 2026 Dear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match.
- ▪Sam Altman agreed within hours.1 I believe you’re being sincere, so I’m asking you to call for a different law, one that would actually slow things down, even though it would require real sacrifice on your part.
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| Original publisher | Jake Gold |
| Canonical URL | https://jacob.gold/posts/open-letter-to-dario-amodei-about-open-weights/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:15:32 +0000 |
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An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights! Sep 12, 2026 Dear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altman agreed within hours.1 I believe you’re being sincere, so I’m asking you to call for a different law, one that would actually slow things down, even though it would require real sacrifice on your part. Any AI model a company offers to the public has to be released as open weights. This wouldn’t cover every model you train, just the ones you make available to the public. Internal and research models wouldn’t be affected, and governments could still get access to unreleased models.
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