The Security Table

When AI Controls The Hardware

• Izar Tarandach, Matt Coles, and Chris Romeo • Season 4 • Episode 21

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Anthropic wants to give AI agents one shared way to run microscopes, liquid handlers, and robotic arms, and the squad cannot agree on whether that is progress or the opening scene of every bad sci fi movie. Matt, who has worked on robotics projects, says a common control standard is decades overdue. Izar calls it the PCI for AI, reminds everyone how secure MCP was on day one, and brings up Therac 25 as a warning about what happens when software controls hardware and fails silently. Then the table turns to the new open letter on collective cyber defense, signed by more than 100 organizations, and asks whether a pledge with no accountability means anything at all. Plus: the birth of the Brockman effect.

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Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
A call for collective action on cyber defense

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