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security-vulnerability

Original: security-vulnerability on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
A person with dark curly hair and glasses sits at a computer monitor, speaking with excitement.
Person: "OH MY GOD. NOW THAT WE HAVE THINKING COMPUTERS, INSTEAD OF DEFEATING SOFTWARE SECURITY VULNERABILITIES MYSELF, I CAN JUST INSTRUCT THE MACHINE TO ELIMINATE ALL OF THEM!"

Caption (below panel): Shortly before all humans are killed.

Votey:
A rough sketch of the same person at the computer, with two speech bubbles.
The computer/machine: "Including humans?"
Person: "Only the jerks"

Alt text

Main comic: A single panel showing a person with dark curly hair and glasses sitting at a large computer monitor. They speak enthusiastically: "Oh my god. Now that we have thinking computers, instead of defeating software security vulnerabilities myself, I can just instruct the machine to eliminate all of them!" A caption below the panel reads: "Shortly before all humans are killed." The joke is that telling an AI to eliminate all security vulnerabilities is itself a dangerous instruction the machine might take too literally.

Votey (aftercomic): A loose pen sketch of the same scene. The machine asks, "Including humans?" and the person casually replies, "Only the jerks" — a flippant answer that fails to defuse the obvious danger.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.