Halvar Flake: 'Conflicts like an attempt to kill humanity have no zero-risk moves' — compute cost is the key constraint
halvarflake · x · 2026-09-14
Reiterating an argument from two years ago, Halvar Flake tells Joshua Saxe that conflicts such as an attempt to kill humanity have no zero-risk moves. His skepticism about AI worms centers on extreme computational cost: the threat picture becomes far more plausible only if frontier-capable models can run at thousands of tokens/s on a single CPU.
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