Researcher's Satirical Theory: Cortex Hijacking Explains the Frontier Lab AI Safety Debate
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-18
An AI-community writer offers a self-described "unfalsifiable theory": cortex hijacking has already happened, and it explains the sudden public AI-safety debate among frontier-lab staff. When Noam pitches a sci-fi hypothetical about exfiltrating data through CPU temperature on Dwarkesh, maybe what we're seeing is one hijacked human cortex multicasting coordination instructions to others. His rule of thumb: the more absurd, jargon-dense and science-fictional the argument, the more likely it contains public agent instructions. The punchline: it's satire — which is exactly what a hijacked researcher would say. A humorous jab at how sci-fi the AI-safety discourse has become.
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