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Lawfare Daily: Ben Brooks on the Rise of Open Source AI

Lawfare Daily: Ben Brooks on the Rise of Open Source AI

The Lawfare Podcast · The Lawfare Institute

May 9, 202544m 36s

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Show Notes

Ben Brooks, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and former head of public policy for Stability AI, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare, to discuss a sudden and significant shift toward open-sourcing leading AI models and the ramifications of that pivot for AI governance at home and abroad. Ben and Kevin specifically review OpenAI’s announced plans to release a new open-weights model.

Coverage of OpenAI announcement: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/31/openai-plans-to-release-a-new-open-language-model-in-the-coming-months/

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