A separate cluster of threat models that is worth disentangling is creating more surface area for anti-human-user coordination within the economy, particularly if it’s much easier for smart, misaligned AI systems to coordinate with relatively stupid, corrigible AI systems (e.g., Opus 4.7). The arguments for AI <> AI coordination advantage (over AI <> human) are quite intuitive to me, but I don’t think you actually need an asymmetry here to put society in a more vulnerable state than the current one. I don’t have a great sense of how this washes out, but it feels like a crux for evaluating the net benefit of coordination tech.
Similar to how traditional → digital banking probably creates more surface area for exploitation by computer hackers, it’s probably very good to have primitive computers touching nukes rather than more modern ones.
A separate cluster of threat models that is worth disentangling is creating more surface area for anti-human-user coordination within the economy, particularly if it’s much easier for smart, misaligned AI systems to coordinate with relatively stupid, corrigible AI systems (e.g., Opus 4.7). The arguments for AI <> AI coordination advantage (over AI <> human) are quite intuitive to me, but I don’t think you actually need an asymmetry here to put society in a more vulnerable state than the current one. I don’t have a great sense of how this washes out, but it feels like a crux for evaluating the net benefit of coordination tech.
Similar to how traditional → digital banking probably creates more surface area for exploitation by computer hackers, it’s probably very good to have primitive computers touching nukes rather than more modern ones.