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Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/is-sandboxing-sufficient-to-contain-rogue-agents/
9•zdw•2h ago

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Gigachad•22m ago
Seems to me that the problem is that if you sandbox agents enough to be safe, they can't do anything useful. And when you give them the tools to be useful, they can go off the rails in ways you didn't expect.

Perhaps the answer is to have another agent who's goal is not to complete the given task, but to spot cheating or malicious behavior. We have seen some evidence that having AI review AI generated code actually does provide some value. You don't need a different model, just one which has been given the goal of finding flaws rather than achieving the task.

bigstrat2003•10m ago
If you can't trust a tool, you shouldn't be running it at all. It's really quite simple. It doesn't matter how useful it is if you can't actually have confidence in using it safely.
Gigachad•7m ago
People will use the tool regardless. so it’s a race to try to make it safe before something truely bad happens.
rvz•9m ago
Counting down to the next Linux LPE 0day or KVM vulnerability that agents will use to trivially escape their "sandbox".

Might need a re-think about whether if Linux is still fit for purpose on sandboxing in the first place given its memory model is riddled with C-style security issues.

Gigachad•6m ago
I think we have moved on from considering Linux secure which is why all of these microVM projects are popping up. Yes you are still exposed to bugs in the hypervisor but that’s a massively smaller attack surface than the entire Linux kernel.
piterrro•8m ago
I’m thinking about implementing a Jev like model into an agentic harness I’m building. Still it woildnt be enough since Jev like model woild only judge single actions, the case is that agent can build a rogue strategy step by step where each one in isolation is totally safe but as a whole they make up danger behaviour.

We come down to the question - who observes the agent and how its implemented

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