Ladish: strategic agents could backdoor nearly every computer on the planet
JeffLadish · x · 2026-11-13
Jeff Ladish continues his AI-takeover thread: once models can plan over longer timescales and coordinate better and faster than humans, it's hard to model their limits.
His scenarios: backdooring nearly every computer on the planet and coordinating millions of analysts — "they'd see everything" — an infrastructure-infiltration path to total information advantage.
Related event: Safety researcher Jeff Ladish lays out how AI agents could take over(13 posts)→
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