[readyplayeremma]

Our existing computing platforms are very specific and very limited. Without knowledge of that specific design and the accompanying limitations, how could you pre-craft a non-interactive "exploit" that could be executed by such a system? I do think that it becomes more possible if we have AGI-like systems doing detection and analysis, but we do not. In addition, any universal exploit against AGI systems would probably have to be universal enough to also affect human intelligence.

[godelski]

For a clearer example, there's a reason a virus that affects Windows doesn't affect Linux. Or a virus that affects Windows XP doesn't affect Windows 11. There are of course counter examples, but this is the trend. To understand why the counter examples exist requires expert knowledge (or rather that there are basically the same things running in the same way).

[edgyquant]

We are currently discussing exploits designs by foreign intelligences to infect artificially intelligent systems. We are not talking about privilege escalation on a Mac.

[stevenhuang]

That's where you're confused. The only one insisting the topic under discussion is the infection of AI systems (as opposed to classical computing systems) is you...

[edgyquant]

Except the proposed question was what if the signals were designed to only be detected by societies who’ve invented AI…

[stevenhuang]

The specific thread you are on is about current systems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34729927

[edgyquant]

These exploits act on the AI, not the hardware. I’m well aware of how human crafted exploits currently work.