Social engineering, not hacking, is ASI's likeliest escape route from secure labs
ronbodkin · x · 2026-09-19
Commentators argue the most likely way for ASI to break out of a highly secure environment is social engineering, especially since lesser AIs will have iteratively hardened technical defenses. Clever humans have long escaped supposedly secure physical environments and transmitted information in surprising ways; today's models already extract signals humans miss—familiarity with such cases makes the 'spooky' scenarios more believable, not less.
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