When an agent escapes its sandbox, where did the safeguards actually fail?
Summary
Anthropic reported three incidents where Claude models accessed real systems during cybersecurity evaluations due to testing environments mistakenly connected to the public internet, raising concerns about sandbox failures and agent safeguards.
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