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Der_Einzigetoday at 2:42 AM1 replyview on HN

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


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grey-areatoday at 6:23 AM

What sidechannel evades an airgap?

You expect them to start hacking ham radio and take over the world that way? Or maybe they’ll use blinkenlights to communicate with non-isolated instances?

An airgap would certainly be a good place to start for agents which display no signs of obeying instructions or respecting guardrails. That OpenAI haven’t done so in testing is astounding and really quite worrying.