arxivcs.LG2026-07-09
Modular Pretraining Enables Access Control
Ethan Roland, Murat Cubuktepe, Erick Martinez, Stijn Servaes, Keenan Pepper, Mike Vaiana, et al.
AI developers face a dual-use dilemma. An AI capability that helps one user cure a disease can help another synthesize one. This dilemma could be resolved with access control, limiting dual-use AI capabilities to trusted deployments with a legitimate need. A gold standard for acc…