Andrew Ng urges open models for AI defense, rejecting closed-model safety claims

Andrew Ng praised Nvidia's letter and argued that open models and harnesses are needed for defense, citing the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. He said claims that closed models are safer are regulatory capture.

Jensen Huang's background post says closed AI blocked forensics during the Hugging Face incident, while an open-weight frontier model helped contain it, leading to the Open Secure AI Alliance.