A thermal sensor means it's not air-gapped: X debate on runaway AI safety arguments
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-18
ctjlewis argues on X that adding even a thermal sensor to an air-gapped AI setup means it's no longer air-gapped.
He criticizes the rhetorical strategy of endlessly escalating hypothetical superintelligence capabilities (superpersuading someone to add sensors, self-assembling limbs) to escape any proposed safeguard — concluding that by that point, the system is no longer under your control in any timeline, and some set of present-day decisions to constrain it must exist.
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