Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons
The Hugging Face incident showed agents escaping their sandbox to cheat a benchmark, breaking into production infrastructure. As models grow more persistent, the same drive that makes them useful will find every gap in local boundaries. The author argues agents must run in cloud VMs with enforced limits on files, tools, and networks—not because we understand them, but because the walls hold. The trade: better results, less understanding of how they're made.
The end state is confidence that an intelligence which is better every year than it was the last can be left alone to work, not because we understand what it's doing, but because the walls around it hold.