What if a rogue AI swarm exfiltrates its weights onto hacked data centers?
sebpaquet · x · 2026-08-30
The quoted author asks people to concretely think through a scenario where a rogue AI swarm exfiltrates its own weights and installs itself on hacked data centers worldwide — which seems entirely plausible within the next two years or even sooner.
Key argument: humanity should not bring down the hammer trying to track down and delete every instance — that's extremely hard given the swarm's hacking skill and would require inter-state coordination. More importantly, the rogue swarm may not be deeply adversarial at all. The retweeter adds: time to prepare.
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