How Hard Is Stealing $1 From a Bank? A Probe of ASI's Real-World Attack Surface
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-10-12
Aaron Bergman poses a thought experiment: he currently believes there is genuinely no way to steal $1 from an arbitrary major US bank account without routing through human action. He reframes the question as: what could ASI actually make happen from a terminal without compromising many visibly breakable systems across society? He extends this to critical infrastructure — power grids, financial markets, factories — asking whether a random critical vulnerability in such systems is closer to a 100%, 99%, or 50% probability thing. It's an opinionated intuition-check on how resilient digital-critical systems really are, not a concrete technique.
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