Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng Argue for Staying Open as Safety Pressure Mounts

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At Ai4, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng debated regulation, open-source access, and how America competes as China advances — with all three making the case for openness despite escalating safety concerns. Hinton's participation is notable given his own well-documented alarm about frontier risk; the split between "AI is dangerous" and "therefore close it" is not as tight as the policy discourse assumes. This is the counterweight to the OpenAI/Anthropic co-designed federal pre-release threshold that would gate which models face scrutiny.