Yacine Proposes Monitoring Idle Compute Power Draw as an AI Escape Detector
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-04
Developer yacineMTB muses that a truly intelligent escapee AI could distribute itself across unsecured computers and browsers, so it may be time to monitor power usage — even deliberately leaving some unsecured compute out there whose power draw serves as a detection mechanism.
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