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I want AI agents controlling my laptop. And not only AI. There are lots of cool software programs I want on my laptop besides AI too. The problem is not AI, the problem is the awful security model that is the foundation of all modern operating systems.

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I think most people would find automatic feeding of arbitrary private information from their devices to an external server to be problematic.

If the AI is running offline and is non-destructive/safe then that's a different story.

What would be a better security foundation?

Mandatory access controls, fine-grained capabilities, temporary capability grants, risk scoring, progressive disclosure, high-level intents that encapsulate permissions, and most importantly, an audit system.

We have the hindsight of developing highly distributed low-trust systems. We can do better than `curl -fsSL https://remote_install_script/ | sudo sh`.

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too complicated for most people

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