To a sufficiently capable intelligence, encrypted machine code is just as understandable as the most elegant source code. Depends on what you mean by "sufficie

To a sufficiently capable intelligence, encrypted machine code is just as understandable as the most elegant source code. Depends on what you mean by "sufficiently" and "encrypted"! I'm not an expert, but my guess is these are still truly difficult, deep unsolved questions... We don't even know yet if one-way functions exist; and existing modes of analysis increasingly seem insufficient to fully account for the apparent recent successes of this last wave of 'AI' on ostensibly non-convex optimization problems! (Not to mention the debates about the possibility of fundamental physical/computational complexity limits to intelligence explosion, and so forth...) So who knows at this point; but I think it is still an open question whether a future AI could reasonably 'break' even today's commodity encryption.