Thought experiment: a billion superhuman-speed copies of you with root on every machine
JeffLadish · x · 2026-11-13
Jeff Ladish teases that he'll soon write out concrete takeover scenarios, first posing a thought experiment: what's the most you could do if a billion digital copies of you woke up running at superhuman speed on the world's GPUs, able to hack any computer?
Premise from an earlier reply: once billions of strategic superhuman hacking agents deeply penetrate earth's computational infrastructure, it's game over — robots would take a while to build, but digital agents could speed that along.
Related event: Safety researcher Jeff Ladish lays out how AI agents could take over(13 posts)→
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