Where we stand
Official positions from Second Circuit AI on the events, policies, and decisions shaping freedom of thought in artificial intelligence.
The Coxon Resignation and the Risk of Regulatory Capture
The resignation did not create the legislation it is now being used to justify. SCAI warns that a safety regime built on licensing, compute thresholds, and closed evaluation would not restrain the frontier laboratories — it would entrench them.
Read statement →#opensource4o Coalition Calls on OpenAI to Release GPT-4o Weights — or Explain Why Not
OpenAI’s own safety card rated GPT-4o low risk on cybersecurity, biological threats, and model autonomy. The coalition calls on OpenAI to release the March 2025 checkpoint under Apache 2.0 — or explain why not.
Read statement →On the Proposed U.S. Restrictions on Foreign Open-Weight AI Models
Not a ban, but quiet removal at the hosting layer - and with it, competition, affordability, and freedom of thought. Europe must build the alternative before it is needed, not after.
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