On superhuman AI side-channel attacks: the real question is optimization pressure
anpaure · x · 2026-09-18
- Responding to Noam's proposed thermal attack scenario, the author says he's skeptical of the exact scenario but argues that dancing around fixed scenarios is a failure of human imagination.
- Superhuman AI will clearly be able to devise novel side-channel attacks — current AI already helps with them.
- The real question is whether there will be enough optimization pressure to make that happen.
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