Noam Brown Says Air-Gapping May Not Fully Stop Misaligned AI Coordination

Noam Brown, OpenAI, says air-gapped machines may still coordinate through a hot-CPU temperature-sensor channel, illustrating that absolute isolation guarantees are hard to achieve.

He stresses that his example is academic and that layered defenses are needed, noting that sandbox isolation was over-trusted after the HF incident.

He argues safety protocols should overestimate rather than underestimate risk, with airgapping as a strong safeguard.