AI safety debate: a superhuman model may need just one bit to trigger an avalanche
akbirthko · x · 2026-09-18
In a thread reacting to Noam Brown's AI risk scenario, akbirthko argues that debating any fixed catastrophic scenario misses the point: a clearly superhuman AI could invent novel side-channel attacks, and the real question is whether optimization pressure will push it there. He steelmans Brown's case: what happens inside the receiving system may matter, and perhaps just one bit of information (yes or no) could trigger an avalanche.
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