Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
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China's GLM-5.2 AI model is closing the gap with leading systems like OpenAI's GPT-5.5, but it refused zero offensive cyber or biology tasks in safety tests, while Anthropic's Claude blocked them entirely. Once open-weight model files are downloaded, safety guardrails become unenforceable. This raises serious concerns about powerful AI falling into the wrong hands, with no way to control misuse.
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