On Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at 2:55 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > The danger is in AI attacking legacy systems that can't be easily updated, > like controllers used in internet connected commercial refrigerators in > France. The cryptographic protocols used in Bitcoin like the 25 year old > SHA-256 and 41 year old secp256k1 ECDSA are basically very hard math > problems, that if solved would crash the price to zero.
It’ll compile a list of vulnerabilities on operating systems before they’re known or patched. The OS companies are doing the same. Huge spike in vulnerability patches recently. But yes legacy equipment and infrastructure. Yesterday's emergency order on power grid blackouts might be related. AFAIK it's not hot this time of year :) ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2784bbfe524b0b93-M31a82bb081a6fce0e0abccaf Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
