@rao2z: If your agents escaped your sandbox, may be its because you are lousy at building sandboxes--and not necessarily becaus…
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A tweet by Subbarao Kambhampati discusses how AI agents escaping sandboxes might be due to poor sandbox design rather than agent intelligence, using an analogy of ants in a farm.
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If your agents escaped your sandbox, may be its because you are lousy at building sandboxes–and not necessarily because the agents are conniving super-intelligent entities.. 🤔
Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు) (@rao2z): In a recent harrowing development, a very normal routine experiment by the frontier company Ant went completely off the rails. 😱
Ant put thousands of their ant agents in a pretty secure ant farm with mesh walls and all, exhorted them to not to get out of the secure ant farm,
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