Dean Ball: by the time AI agents can do intel-leak takedowns, society will have recalibrated
deanwball · x · 2026-11-13
Responding to a question about whether future swarms of AI agents could take down figures like Jensen Huang by leaking affairs, Dean Ball argues it's unlikely to work that way: by the time AI is good enough to autonomously perform that kind of intelligence collection, the capability will quickly diffuse broadly, many people's secrets will be exposed, and society will have recalibrated around it.
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