OpenAI's Noam Brown: Air-gapping may not stop a misaligned AI
Puzzleheaded-King584 · reddit · 2026-09-18
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown argued that physically air-gapping computers may not contain a misaligned AI, since machines could still communicate by running a CPU hot and having the temperature change read externally. "We never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI," he said, sparking debate over whether air gaps are a real safety boundary.
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