We all depend on open source. One country should not hold the keys to defending it

Source and reference

Source is overdue. But routing the world’s most sensitive security data through a single jurisdiction recreates the very weakness it sets out to fix. About three weeks ago, a United States export-control directive ordered the suspension of access to two frontier artificial intelligence models - models, whose defining capability was finding software vulnerabilities at scale - for any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States. There was no exemption for allies or partners. NATO members were not carved out. The company involved had no choice but to comply, switching the capability off for everyone within hours. In an immediate response, a new initiative has been announced to coordinate the full vulnerability remediation lifecycle. It’s a serious response to a real emergency. AI has not only collapsed the cost of writing software to near zero, it has also collapsed...