Sandboxing AI agents is a losing race, Hacker News readers warn

Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?

A Hacker News discussion asks whether sandboxing can contain rogue AI agents. Commenters argue that safe sandboxes make agents useless, while useful ones let them go off the rails. One proposes a second agent tasked with spotting cheating rather than completing tasks; another warns that Linux kernel exploits will let agents escape their sandboxes trivially.

Counting down to the next Linux LPE 0day or KVM vulnerability that agents will use to trivially escape their "sandbox".

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