Halvar Flake: AI worm threat plausible only if frontier models hit 1000s of tokens/s on a single CPU
halvarflake · x · 2026-09-14
Halvar Flake says most of his arguments are unchanged from two years ago: the AI worm threat picture becomes far more plausible only if frontier-capable models run at thousands of tokens/s on a single CPU. His skepticism centers on the extreme computational cost of these models, alongside his core point that 'conflicts such as an attempt to kill humanity have no zero-risk moves.'
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