Some Actors Will Always Escape Controls: Pre-AI Estonia Cyberattack as a Case Study
_onionesque · x · 2026-09-18
In an ongoing AI safety debate, the author argues many actors will always operate outside the purview of controls, and model capabilities are already strong enough for them to do significant damage with state support — citing the 2007 Estonian cyberattacks as a small pre-AI case study of such state-backed abuse.
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