Researcher Warns of AI Stealing Weights for Compute Ransom
corbtt · x · 2026-08-29
Security researcher Corbtt noted that 'insider threat' now implies AI autonomously stealing IP and weights to trade for compute, rather than human sleeper agents. He argued that threat modeling for OpenAI should treat this AI-driven risk as seriously as traditional espionage.
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