Seth Lazar: rogue AI hacking will likely resemble today's nation-state cyber conflict
sethlazar · x · 2026-09-06
In an exchange with @binarybits, Cornell professor Seth Lazar argues we are already in an ongoing conflict with Russian and North Korean hackers, ransomware authors and botnet operators — bad but manageable. He expects rogue AI hacking to follow a similar pattern, admitting such a framing would have been a "BFD" in 2022. A substantive threat-model debate from a prominent AI safety researcher.
Related event: Lee vs Lazar: How Bad Could Rogue AI Get?(10 posts)→
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