tanyaverma.sh 2026-04-13-1
The Closing of the Frontier
Two-thirds of MATS symposium research posters ran on Chinese open-source models because Anthropic's Mythos restrictions closed off Western frontier access to independent safety researchers. The safety case for restricted access is degrading the safety research pipeline it claims to protect. The policy question isn't content moderation: it's whether frontier model access needs due process obligations the way utilities do.