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Joshua Alhiam predicts that safeguards will prevent a cyber apocalypse in the immediate near term (within months).

On a16z Podcast · unverified speaker · a16z Podcast · Aug 4, 2026

So so most attackers would not be able to leverage large amounts of compute for running attacks with these models and and wouldn't be able to get the model to execute an attack at all because of the the safeguards that people will put in place. So So we probably won't see, like, a cyber apocalypse tomorrow.

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