Uncensorable, Unmonitorable, Uncontrollable: U.S. Policy Options for Open-Weight Biosecurity Risk
China is releasing AI it can’t control. Here’s why that’s a biosecurity problem, and what the U.S. can do about it. The CCP has built the world’s most sophisticated internet censorship apparatus. It is also, as of 2026, the world’s leading distributor of AI models that permanently circumvent that apparatus. This is not an accident exactly– but it is a contradiction, and it has consequences. The consequences I’m most concerned about are biosecurity ones. In January 2026, Las Vegas police and the FBI raided a suburban home and found multiple refrigerators, freezers, laboratory equipment, and “numerous bottles… containing unknown liquid substances.” The illegal biolab was connected to a similar operation discovered in Reedley, California three years earlier. The Reedley facility contained thousands of vials of biological material, including potential pathogens such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, COVID-19, and Ebola; both labs were run by the same individual. Despite knowing about potentia
Uncensorable, Unmonitorable, Uncontrollable: U.S. Policy Options for Open-Weight Biosecurity Risk Contents The CCP has built the world's most sophisticated internet censorship apparatus. It is also, as of 2026, the world's leading distributor of AI models that permanently circumvent that apparatus. This is not an accident exactly- but it is a contradiction, and it has consequences. The consequences I'm most concerned about are biosecurity ones. In January 2026, Las Vegas police and the FBI raided a suburban home and found multiple refrigerators, freezers, laboratory equipment, and "numerous bo
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