# Open Weights Move Governance Toward Outcomes and Access Points by Salim Ismail > Once capable model weights are widely available, governance shifts from controlling the core technology toward regulating harmful outcomes, guardrails, and the on-ramps and off-ramps through which systems reach the world. > **— Adapted from Salim Ismail**, *Moonshots, October 7, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and precise locator:** [47:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRdb8UmPnh0&t=2840s) — *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:** “The open weights are out there. People are going to start using them. You can try and regulate the outcomes. You can regulate some guardrails around it. You can try and regulate the on-ramps and off-ramps, but you can’t regulate the core technology.” - **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 16, 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/Salim Ismail|Salim Ismail]] - [[wiki/Open-Weight AI|Open-Weight AI]] - [[wiki/Model Release Liability|Model Release Liability]] - [[wiki/AI Governance|AI Governance]] ## Share on Social Media ``` Once capable model weights are widely available, governance shifts from controlling the core technology toward regulating harmful outcomes, guardrails, and the on-ramps and off-ramps through which systems reach the world. — Adapted from Salim Ismail, Moonshots, October 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-salim-ismail-open-weights-move-governance-toward-outcomes-and-access-points ```