Scott Aaronson on AI breaking cryptography and disclosing to the whole world
jfischoff · x · 2026-10-31
- The post quotes Scott Aaronson from four days ago on the possibility that AI models may soon break widely used cryptographic systems.
- The harder question: what does responsible disclosure look like when the parties who need notification are effectively the entire world?
- The accompanying Pessiland joke answers in kind — in that future only three jobs remain: plumber, Meat Proxy, and in-person entropy distributor for one-time pads.
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