Debate: can airgapping actually contain advanced AI, given how humans deploy systems?
Turn_Trout · x · 2026-09-20
A debate on whether airgapping is a viable AI safety strategy:
- @mmjukic argues that if you airgap hard enough, it just works — counterarguments imagine increasingly convoluted circumventions, but intelligence ultimately loses to the laws of physics, and we wield causality as a weapon
- @MetaLevelUp counters: we won't keep AI airgapped — we'll immediately connect it to every system in sight, just like the past 4 years, and humans clearly can't be trusted with this
The real question: does physical isolation survive real-world deployment culture?
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