Martin Casado: Covert-Channel Debate Shows What Happens When Safetyism Meets Real Systems
nptacek · x · 2026-09-18
Martin Casado (a16z) comments on the conversation around AI covert channels: when safetyism meets actual systems, it becomes much harder to wave away engineering constraints with appeals to hypothetical superintelligent capability. Shared by security researcher nptacek.
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