Halvar Flake: stop assuming AI is exempt from the second law of thermodynamics
tobowers · x · 2026-09-18
Security researcher Halvar Flake (Thomas Dullien) urges the AI community to stop assuming AI systems are exempt from fundamental limits: the second law of thermodynamics, the cost of information acquisition, noisy channels, and measurement errors. He argues capability discussions should be grounded in these physical and information-theoretic constraints.
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