More than 40 bitcoin and crypto companies signed an open letter, published August 10, urging major AI laboratories to grant early access to their frontier models for security researchers. The core issue is an asymmetry: maintainers of open-source code protecting over one trillion dollars cannot access the vetted researcher programs run by AI labs, while attackers can. The letter, organized by the Bitcoin Policy Institute with signatories including Blockstream, ARK Invest, Coinbase and Block, calls for standing trusted-access programs for qualified defenders of open-source financial infrastructure. As of publication, the big AI labs have not publicly committed to this request.
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