Comment by ACCount39

The amount of sandboxing an average production AI deployment uses is slightly above a zero.

If AI is a hacking hazard even with non-zero sandboxing, because it can and will go off the rails and try to break out of your sandbox? If you got yourself an AI that even at test time will act like 3 career cybercriminals in a trenchcoat? The issue isn't the sandbox quality.

The issue is that AI is both capable of, and willing to punch its way out of sandboxes unprompted.

That "capable" is only ever going to get worse, because AIs are going to become more and more capable over time. That "willing"? It goes directly to a very nasty, very foundational problem of "how do we make our AI be nice in general". That's an open unsolved problem.

That's the problem that NEEDS to be solved, or at least improved upon, before we build even more capable AIs. Sandbox quality is a distraction. It might hold the problems back by a little. It gives an extra safety margin. But a "test time" AI is eventually deployed, and then the sandbox doesn't help at all.