A technical post on LessWrong examines whether specialized hardware called Trusted Execution Environments can enforce AI safety rules while protecting privacy. The idea is compelling: design chips that make it physically impossible to run dangerous models undetected. But there's a catch. You'd have to trust that the hardware vendor didn't hide backdoors—and current chips have proven weaknesses. The author concludes that hardware auditability, not theory, is the real limitation.

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