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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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