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Open weights deny Global South AI
Closing access doesn't reduce misuse so much as push it into unsupervised settings while deepening global asymmetries; the real answer is hardware- and software-layer governance that makes openness safer.
THE BRIEFHOW THIS NARRATIVE IS FRAMED
FRAMINGS
- · open-weight paradox
- · AI sovereignty
- · Global South
- · hardware-enabled governance
- · defense-in-depth
PATTERNS
- · displace risks rather than reduce them
- · sovereign AI capacity
- · Global South
- · FlexHEG
- · chip-level attestation
- · IAEA-like
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