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Lawrence Lessig

Harvard Law professor; Creative Commons founder

Long-time digital rights and copyright scholar. Founded Creative Commons. In 2024, argued some AI model weights are too dangerous to release openly even given his pro-openness defaults.

current Roy L. Furman Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Founder, Creative Commons

wikipedia @lessig

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Closed weightsevolved-toward

Keep frontier weights closed; treat them as hazardous artefacts

Long-time openness advocate who in 2024 argued the highest-capability AI models may need to be closed-weight despite his free-culture priors.

“Whatever model weights can teach, that benefit must be weighed against the enormous risk of misuse that highly capable models present. At some point, that risk is clearly too great.”

¶ articleNot all AI Models should be Freely Available, Argues a Legal Scholar· Berkman Klein Center· 2024-07· direct quote

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Jeffrey Ladish
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Executive Director of Palisade Research

Record last updated 2026-04-25.