Should Open-Weight AI Be Regulated? A Conversation with Robert Graham
📝 I finally got to talk to Robert Graham after about twenty-five years of interacting with him online and somehow never once actually chatting. Turns out he's the guy who built BlackICE, the little icon in my dock in college that got me into security in the first place, and I only found that out years after we'd started arguing on the internet. This one came out of him pushing back on my endorsement of Greg Brockman's cyber defense letter, and we went four hours on whether open-weight models should ship with any controls at all.
🧭 What we talk about:
🔐 Kerckhoffs's principle vs. "responsi