Safety researcher debunks claim that AI could escape air-gapped networks
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-09-18
Responding to claims that a model could use side-channel attacks to circumvent an air-gapped network, BlancheMinerva argues the leap from "non-zero information exchange is possible" to "a model can effectively escape air-gapping" makes no sense. The only conceptually plausible route would be coordinated inside/outside agents — requiring OpenAI to have released a highly misaligned AI willing to hack its own infrastructure.
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