Critical Infrastructure
topic on 5 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
More or Less 
American Optimist 
No Priors 
Catalyst 
Big Technology
6 statements about Critical Infrastructure, every show
U.S. government should not take equity stakes in AI companies
“No, because I don't like why is like kind of the upshot, you know, it's like, it's not like I don't understand the rationale for doing it in them and not in other things, if that makes sense. There's lots of critical infrastructure.”
Krishnan: Undetectable Backdoors in Coding Assistants Threaten Critical Infrastructure
“Interpretability is still a nascent field and you could very easily see ways where You plug a model into a cursor or windsurf and you generate a piece of code. And then two years down the road, it turns out that code had a little if statement saying, if I'm ru…”
Cotton: China pre-positions cyber tools in critical U.S. infrastructure
“They also are some of the most aggressive hackers in the world as well. Targeting government systems, targeting corporate systems, and placing tools in critical infrastructure for moments of tension in the future.”
Hendrycks: Cyberattacks and bioweapons are top malicious AI risks within two years
“In the shorter term when AIs get more agential, I'd be concerned about AIs causing cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, possibly by as directed by a rogue actor. There'd also be the risk of AIs facilitating the development of bioweapons in particular pand…”
Hendrycks: Open-weight AI releases should be restricted for critical infrastructure cyber risks
“If for instance they have these cyber capabilities later on yeah, I think that, or I think that would be a potential place to be drawing the line on on open weight releases personally. In particular the ones that could cause damage to critical infrastructure.”