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"a superhuman AI that can brainwash people over text" is the dumbest thing I've read this year. It's incredible to me that this guy has some kind of cult follow
by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
"a superhuman AI that can brainwash people over text" is the dumbest thing I've read this year. It's incredible to me that this guy has some kind of cult following among people who should know better.
The real answer is that people are lazy and as soon as a security barrier forces them to do work, they want to tear down the barrier. It doesn't take a superhuman AI, it just takes a government employee using their personal email because it's easier. There's been a million MCP "security issues" because they're accepting untrusted, unverifiable inputs and acting with lots of permissions.
- 3form 9mo agoA set of ideas presented to people, and a notion of being smarter for believing in them seems enough to fuel enough of thought-problem-keyboard-warriorism.
- patapong 9mo agoIndeed - the problem here is "How can we prevent a somewhat intelligent, potentially malicious agent from exfiltrating data, with or without human involvement", rather than the superhuman AI stuff. Still a hard problem to solve I think!