god forbid a multiagent researcher offer a carefully qualified example of the physical limits of communication between computers in this fucking country any more
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change "But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI." "So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar." "You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient." "There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors." "One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate." _________ Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations: firesidealpha.substack.com/p…
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It's not physically possible if it doesn't even have a sensor. Retarded bullshit
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they all have sensors built into the cpus. 40cm apart is awfully close though
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Dipshit, the CPU temp sensor measures the CPU TEMP.. Not the fucking ambient air temp.
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yep and with low cpu activity you can measure ambient air temp
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um.. no.. you can't with any sort of acuracy.. You need an inlet air temp sensor, which is what they used for this.
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except you actually can, and they did not need an inlet thermometer
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yeah no inlet thermometer necessary or used
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incredulous folks refusing to believe loony tunes side channels exist further reinforcing the original point being made lol
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yeah it’s funny it’s been this way for over 80 years since TEMPEST attacks were first theorized.

Sep 18, 2026 · 6:01 AM UTC

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sigh.. fact is, this type of attack won't ever work in any sort of office, datacenter or building in use today.
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