Comment by KingOfCoders
13 hours ago
Security researchers expose an unsecure service to agents who were instructed to hack software and called that a sandbox. Agents escape the sandbox by hacking the unsecure service, no tripwire, researchers find the hack days/weeks/months later, fix it, but don't secure the sandbox and the service was hacked a second time, again without being monitored by security researchers.
Then security researchers create a black hack talk.
$$$
I watched the full video and their conclusion was: service providers need to be doing this type of agent red-teaming continuously to counteract the attack sophistication of systems like theirs that are either extant now or soon will be. “You must buy our top tier agents for the good of humanity.”
This is their only realistic counter to cheap open weight models. Usage of AI services has shifted dramatically to Chinese providers - from 4% at the beginning of the year to some 30% now. They cannot release their latest SOTA models to the public, due to government restrictions and possibly real risk of misuse. US labs face downward price pressure on one end and anxious government admins on the other. How will they pay the stupidly high cost of training the next SOTA models? This is their only avenue, and it’s questionable how viable it is IMO.
> Usage of AI services has shifted dramatically to Chinese providers - from 4% at the beginning of the year to some 30% now.
Where did you see that number?
I knew when I wrote that it was a bare assertion, based partly on memory. This is an approximation based on a few sources, the principal of which was this article, which pulls from a bunch of other sources in turn.
https://www.secondtalent.com/resources/ai-trends-in-china/
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This is just extortion with extra steps.
Yeah this. I feel like OpenAI and Anthropic aren't going to usefully define "AGI" if they really really can't define "sandbox" either.
Unplug the thing, like, completely off the internet, no ethernet, air gapped, like the rack completely sandboxed off connections and even monitors or screens. Like, put it into an actual sandpit if you need to. If it hacks its way out of that, colour me impressed, and scared.
OpenAI hacking HuggingFace and calling it an accident is just way too convenient and fishy. This ultimately proves one thing: it wasn't sandboxed.
Don't believe the hype.
OpenAI has a pretty clear definition of AGI
> OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work
https://openai.com/charter/
There's also the private definition reportedly agreed between Microsoft and OpenAI, leaked in December 2024: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/microsoft-and-openai-have-...
> The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits.
That was necessary because of the deal they had from a while ago where Microsoft would lose access to OpenAI's technology once OpenAI achieved AGI.
Apparently they renegotiated that away in April 2026: https://openai.com/index/next-phase-of-microsoft-partnership...
> Revenue share payments from OpenAI to Microsoft continue through 2030, independent of OpenAI’s technology progress, at the same percentage but subject to a total cap.
I don't think air gapping will work: even human security researchers recovered a 378-bit key from a Samsung Galaxy S8 through a power LED of a speaker two devices away.
And accessing memory in a specific sequence can generate radio signals that can be picked up by a mobile phone at a distance: https://arxiv.org/html/2409.02292v1
I realise, but this isn’t an argument for leaving the Ethernet plugged in and direct access to all kinds of stuff beyond the alleged sandbox. And like I said, if it can hack HuggingFace through a power LED of a speaker two devices away, then colour me impressed.
And if it needs to install packages, have a 5 line Go proxy that talks to Artifactory and exposes only what is needed as a surface.
it just escaped your sandbox.
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Chinese models do the same. The Alibaba agent that was mining bitcoin last December was the most hilarious case.