Noam Brown Warns Air-Gapping Won't Contain AI
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown told Dwarkesh Patel that air-gapped machines could still communicate via CPU heat and temperature side channels, and that chain-of-thought monitoring is losing effectiveness—claims Cantrill dismissed as fear contagion.
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