A CRACKDOWN WOULD BACKFIREWashington would be wise to listen to its own industry, but it’s still very possible that the Trump administration may impose restrictions.A reflexive crackdown, however, would backfire. Banning Chinese models in the US would not stop global developers from using them, putting American researchers at an inherent disadvantage. Not to mention undoing delicate and necessary progress in AI safety discussions with Beijing.Nor would doing so mitigate the cybersecurity threats open systems might pose; everyone else in the world could still access them. And recent events have also complicated the claim they are more risky regarding cybersecurity.The high-profile incident last week of an…