alt Hacker NewsIt is notable in that it’s the first time an open Chinese company openly stated they were reducing intelligence for “safety”.
“Our lock can be picked by the robot.” We ban the robot instead of fixing the lock. It’s shortsighted.
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vikramkr • yesterday at 6:45 PM
they're pretty clearly framing it as holding back on the robot and letting is lose slowly to give everyone time to update their locks
senderista • yesterday at 11:28 PM
They are directly responding to new Chinese export controls on cyber capabilities.
If we had a technique that would defeat almost every lock in the world, we might be prudent to delay releasing that until people have had time to change the locks.
Same general benefit as coordinated disclosure, except it's a big game-theory problem where we're likely to eventually have sufficiently capable defectors.