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If malicious AI has replaced the sudo binary, then it can already run arbitrary code as root. No need to "collect your password" then


It could just alias sudo on your ~/.bashrc. No need to replace the actual file on /usr/bin/sudo or wherever you have it. I would only need to be able to run arbitrary code as you.




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