Air-gapping debate: Blanche Minerva pushes back on Noam Brown's isolation remarks

BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-09-19

After clips circulated of Noam Brown using an academic example to argue absolute isolation guarantees are hard, safety researcher Blanche Minerva pushed back strongly, saying it felt like pre-emptively discrediting air-gapped networks she has advocated at frontier labs for years, citing the OAI hacking of HF as a warning. Brown clarified the example was academic, meant to argue for layered defense rather than against air gapping, and urged watching the full podcast.

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