Ex-Meta researcher cites Vernor Vinge's rogue AI escape as air-gap argument
seanwbren · x · 2026-09-10
seanwbren recommends chapter 1 of Vernor Vinge's 'A Fire Upon the Deep' as a sci-fi depiction of a catastrophic rogue AI escape, arguing air-gaps and precautions could be warranted if you're certain a model is unaligned — but notes Anthropic/OpenAI themselves admit they don't know. He also muses that a Half-Life 2-style security state would be required to fully block anonymous payments like ZEC.
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