TLDR Dev · MISCELLANEOUS

HAVE THE FRONTIER LABS MIXED UP AI SAFETY AND SECURITY?

martinalderson.com8 min read

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Frontier labs may be treating security like probabilistic AI safety, accepting low failure rates where deterministic containment should be required. Recent agent escapes show that weak sandbox rules and ignored alerts can defeat otherwise useful monitoring, so known controls must work every time and trigger real intervention.