Security researcher: 'Better security primitives' fix requires solving an impossible decades-old problem

davidmanheim · x · 2026-10-04

Security researcher David Manheim argues that the "fundamentally better security primitives" path for AI safety requires fully solving browser security and least-privilege sandboxing — problems security researchers consider fundamental and possibly unsolvable after decades of effort. He reads this as an implicit admission that AI security is in deep trouble.

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