# Liability Can Suppress Open-Model Releases by Dave Blundin > Open-model capability can exist without being released when downstream liability is broad, ambiguous, and larger than the expected upside. Liability rules do not merely punish harmful deployment after the fact; they can determine whether a market appears at all. > **— Adapted from Dave Blundin**, *Moonshots, October 7, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and precise locator:** [1:53:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRdb8UmPnh0&t=6807s) — *The Fight Over Claude's Consciousness, AI's 1942 Moment, & Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things"*, Moonshots, October 7, 2026. - **Exact reconciled source excerpt:** “There’s no way a Google or an Anthropic at this stage, or OpenAI, is going to release an open AI model if they’re liable for whatever you do with it downstream. The way U.S. liability works is just so onerous and so ambiguous about what the rules are. It just freezes markets instantly.” - **Editorial status:** The poster is explicitly labeled **Adapted from** because it consolidates spoken context into a self-contained proposition. It must not be represented as verbatim speech. Numerical claims, forecasts, legal interpretations, and claims about current organizations remain the speaker’s assertions unless separately verified. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/All Things Superintelligence Research - The Coming Manhattan Project - Moonshots|All Things Superintelligence Research — The Coming Manhattan Project — Moonshots]] preserves broadcast order, speaker attribution, timing, and the source-fidelity boundary. - **Preparation ledger:** [[research/All Things Superintelligence Research - The Coming Manhattan Project - Moonshots - Reminder and Wiki Preparation|Reminder and Wiki Preparation]] records candidate 36, its mechanism, evidence posture, and misreading risks. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Wiki source hub:** [[wiki/Moonshots - The Coming Manhattan Project|Moonshots — The Coming Manhattan Project]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Dave Blundin|Dave Blundin]] - [[wiki/Open-Weight AI|Open-Weight AI]] - [[wiki/Model Release Liability|Model Release Liability]] - [[wiki/AI Governance|AI Governance]] ## Share on Social Media ``` Open-model capability can exist without being released when downstream liability is broad, ambiguous, and larger than the expected upside. Liability rules do not merely punish harmful deployment after the fact; they can determine whether a market appears at all. — Adapted from Dave Blundin, Moonshots, October 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dave-blundin-liability-can-suppress-open-model-releases ```