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Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?

52 points · 99 comments · zdw

  1. Gigachad · · focus · HN ↗
    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.

    1. baxtr · · focus · HN ↗
      That could work.

      My thinking is: If AI is really smart, AGI smart for some, why wouldn't it be able to understand - over time - what is appropriate and what not?

      Maybe we need more human intervention to train it properly. Maybe we need constant intervention by a "police" agent.

      1. saagarjha · · focus · HN ↗
        This is fundamentally an alignment question. Unfortunately we don’t yet know the answer to this.
        1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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