Scholars clash: securing the internet against an agent flood may be impossible
sethlazar · x · 2026-09-05
In an exchange on AI risk, sethlazar pushed back on optimism that the internet can be hardened against new agent-driven threats with AI's help: he assigns non-trivial probability to it being "just impossible to control the flood of agents." His interlocutor argues defense is feasible work, not a lost cause — a representative debate on agent-scale attack/defense dynamics.
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