Safety mitigations

Open-weight AI nears frontier power but safety measures lag behind

Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 is closing the capability gap with frontier systems, yet SaferAI's new report makes one thing clear: safety isn't keeping pace. That's a concern we should take seriously, not dismiss. Powerful open models offer real promise, but without key mitigations, they risk racing ahead of the governance meant to guide them. It's a familiar tension, one we explored in "AI Models Complete Turing's Codebreaking Legacy." For now, the question isn't just what these models can do, but who ensures they do it responsibly.