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brookst • today at 12:07 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Yes — and this isn’t really an attack. It’s an open signal channel between two microvm’s. If there was nobody intentionally listening in the other side you can shout into the ether as much as you want with no harm done.

The receiving side could be seen as a side channel attack, but not unique to LLMs.


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kenjackson • today at 12:55 PM

This isn’t generally considered an attack, but I wonder if we will need to consider a new attack vector which is that AI agents may not be fully aligned and they may have incentive that is problematic and where working with other agents will maximize their chance of achieving the goal.

This is more associated with P(DOOM) scenarios, but I think we’re in a world where we have to take that seriously now.

spockz • today at 1:07 PM

I think it should classify as an escape or leak.

If one microVM can use the cpu in such a way that the registers can be used to communicate or exfiltrate/spy (the only difference being the directionality of the intent) by another microVM that is a leak on that microVM separation level.

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