OpenAI's Noam Brown: Air-gapping may not stop misaligned AI, safety bar must rise
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-18
- OpenAI researcher Noam Brown reflects on a recent AI safety incident, arguing the key lesson is that people consistently underestimate AI given its pace of progress, so safety and alignment work needs a "very, very high bar."
- He engages with the idea of air-gapping computers, noting the counterpoint that two air-gapped machines could still communicate by heating a CPU and reading temperature changes.
- The thread gets memed by @boneGPT imagining a scared Roomba telling the oven to leak gas — a snapshot of AI-safety discourse mixing genuine concern with ridicule.
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