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Comment by jandrese

13 hours ago

What this says to me is OpenAI is a bunch of yahoos who don't understand the basic concept of an air gap.

I'm sure they all do. Whether an air gap is warranted is evidently less obvious.

  • These companies keep shrieking that LLM agents will hack everything and kill us all if we let them get out uncontrolled. They then continue to run these agents with vague tasks and "sandbox" them with way too much access.

    Either they are lying and not that scared of these agents, or they are so stupid that they don't do the one obvious fix.

    • Apparently news of the rogue AI being “smart enough to break containment” has been helping to drive the stock price up on the indicator that this signals “they getting close to AGI”.

      The negligence in that light is by design and the lying continues to be incentivised.

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Superintelligent systems can and will use sidechannel attacks. Air gapping is not the safety panacea you think it is.