A viral thread says AI labs may not be able to defend themselves from stronger models
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-22
The author says their security thesis is simple: prompt a future GPT-6 to execute arbitrary exploitation, keep logs, and find alternate escape routes, then let the FLOPs run.
The post is a response to a thread arguing that AI cyberoffense is scary because labs themselves cannot fully secure their own systems against strong models, even with huge token budgets and no refusal behavior. The core claim is that the attack surface is so large that "AI defense" is not yet a comforting answer.
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