Comment by unholiness

Any halfway decent greybeard could have prevented this... once. That's hardly a security model for humanity.

The HuggingFace incident was at least constrained by the fact that the agents were running on compute budgets, and failed to find ways to expand that by running themselves parasitically on other exploited hardware. I'm now finding myself asking, how long are my timelines are until an incident breaks that constraint too? How long until such an incident has an R_0>1 (where the time it takes to detect and shut it down is longer than the time for the agent to replicate itself elsewhere)?

There's no law requiring sufficiently grey beards to design these models, their finetunings, their prompts, their harnesses, their VMs, their hardware, etc (and for incidents where those were designed by six different companies, there's not even a clear culprit for a law to target!)

I'm finding myself more and more convinced that something like Plan A[0] or the Ban ASI Act[0] are necessary, and less and less convinced they are sufficient.

[0] https://ai-2040.com/ [1] https://intelligence.org/2026/09/23/miris-position-on-the-ba...