Senate Letter to Meta Threatens Open Source AI at Crucial Moment, Experts Warn

Leading experts warn that a letter sent by two senators to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg threatens the future of open-source AI at a pivotal moment when Congress is looking to regulate AI. The letter from Senators Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley, who chair and lead the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology & the Law, questions the release in March of Meta‘s open-source large language model LLaMA. The senators express concern about the potential misuse of the language model in spam, fraud, and harassment. Experts say the letter is a threat to the open-source AI community and looks set to cause much contention.