Some Journalists Are Really GenAI McKinsey-Type Consultants
October 2, 2026
Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.
I read “Why Can’t We Just Keep Rogue AIs Off the Internet?” There are no stupid questions, or that’s what my grandmother told me. I would suggest that as a title, the question works. I settled into my office chair and read this story from the Verge outfit. (Yep, that’s the one with the wonky green masthead.)
The write up states:
Air-gapping AI to keep it away from real-world targets makes testing safer, but less useful.
I like “air gapping.” There’s nothing like intel jargon to explain a local LLM installation without an active connection to the Internet.
Okay, let’s look at several passages that caught my attention.
First up, air gapping:
… would not eliminate every risk posed by AI, either. Agents could still compromise systems inside of the isolated environment, Holz said, and could theoretically produce “malicious artifacts that could be dangerous if moved outside.” Moreover, air gapping “does nothing to diagnose or resolve the latent risks waiting inside the model,” Li said. [Li is Ruizhe Li, an assistant professor in the school of computer science at the University of Birmingham in the UK. There’s no info about this expert’s work at Cheltenham, for the NCA, or one of the entities in the lovely Canary Wharf complexes}
Thanks, Midjourney. Good enough.
Second in the batting order is this statement:
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown recently ignited the debate by suggesting on X that two air-gapped machines could theoretically communicate by manipulating their CPU temperature and reading the changes. “You could even go as far as to say, ‘Well, we should air gap the computers.’ And I’m not convinced that that would be sufficient,” he said. The idea was met with skepticism, and ridicule, on social media, with more generous critics noting the large gap between such a communication method being possible and a pair of AI systems discovering and exploiting it, particularly as the technique would yield painfully slow data transmission speeds.
Those OpenAI wizards know a thing or two about managing sophisticated smart software. Just ask anyone who watched the news from Australia this week (September 221, 206]. Apparently the hot button may not be “air gapping” but the fact that OpenAI is outputting more OpenAI wisdom.
And, the last batter, after two strike outs:
Extreme isolation does have its place, though. Stephen Casper, a computer scientist and assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, described air gapping as a “great idea” for sensitive systems, pointing to its use in nuclear facilities. While not ruling out the possibility that an advanced AI could find some novel way to escape, Casper said at that point we should probably be more worried about prosaic means of breaking containment, such as compliance failures or human error.
I never question the expertise of an academic at anything with Harvard in its name. I overlook the ethics professor who allegedly super accidentally got snagged in a plagiarism net. I don’t pay any attention to the Harvard medical professionals who did some intellectual boogie dancing in their journal articles. I don’t know anything about the institution’s links to Jeffrey Epstein. So when it comes to learning about air gapping, I am a willing student. To Casper’s credit, he does point to what I think is go-to method for compromising super secure facilities: A human. I did a small job at Los Alamos National Laboratory when a certain scientist was swapping out the hard drives in one of the copiers reserved for sensitive materials. Yeah, a human at LANL. Bombs away.
I want to offer many observations about this write up. I want to point out that security and AI are oxymoronic just like the belief that those data centers in Arizona will be up and running on time and on budget. I am feeling the need to point out that GenAI McKinsey-type thinking is different from what I experienced when working at what once was a blue-chip consulting firm and now a disgraced government contractor with security glitches and earning a spot on an informal blacklist. My hunch is that would-be consultants just skip the blue-chip bit and go directly into “real information publishing.” I will fight these dark urges.
Net net: AI may not be the greatest thing for commercial enterprises, but it is one of the greatest technological innovations contributed to bad actors. AI has use cases beyond counting. One is to identify individuals based on their TikTok viewing history when a professional gets a nice job at a secure facility. AI can do wonders to provide tips and suggestions about the hot buttons one might push to get that human to behave like one of those acrobatic Chinese robots. If the robot analogy does not compute, check out the nifty Telegram Cocoon or the other snappy AI activities in Southeast Asia. AI and security. Yep, no problem.
Stephen E Arnold, October 2, 2026
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