AI safety researcher pushes back on claims that side-channel attacks make air-gapped networks insufficient
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-09-18
Researcher Blanche Minerva criticizes a popular AI-risk narrative claiming that future AI could leverage side-channel attacks, making even air-gapped networks insufficient. She argues the claim is incoherent: the original author never explains what a side-channel attack would actually do, and the leap from "non-zero information exchange is possible" to "a model can effectively circumvent an air-gapped network like it circumvents a bad sandbox" is enormous. She sides with security experts, saying such exaggeration undermines serious AI-security discussion.
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