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The speaker says that, hypothetically, China could disrupt a U.S. data center by cyberattacking power utilities or attacking nearby power plants and transformers.
Unidentified speaker · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“and how easy it is to do espionage as well as the sabotage ability of that, which I think are v v very important dynamics that aren't uh that are in some ways reflected in there but not uh totally captured. Uh uh and sabotage ability, for instance, if China were interested in stopping the U_S_ they could do some sort of cyber-tech on some power utilities, but say that that doesn't work. They can also there's there's just there's basically a lot vulnerabilities uh that they can exploit for instance they could”
“They could, from a few miles away,”
“snipe the power plants,”
“transformers, and that would take down the data center.”Play from 2:05:07Report a misattribution
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