In response, Hugging Face called on a commercial frontier model for defense, only to be stymied by safety guardrails. This includes adopting misguided protectionism against Chinese open models. Premature regulation may limit or delay defenders’ access to the most capable models to secure their software. Email ΔPolicymakers should start from the assumption that sophisticated attackers will eventually possess capable AI models and will not be constrained by any regulations. There will be harmful incidents alongside the AI upside, but let’s not make the situation worse by rushing to enact poorly thought-out, misguided restrictions that tie the hands of defenders.