The AI escape is a red herring. The real problem is we can't tell a good sandbox from a bad one
THE SO WHAT
The risk conversation is moving from abstract "AI escape" to concrete sandbox quality—how you isolate, monitor, and constrain agents. Security and infra teams should be scoring their own sandboxes this week and treating environment design as a first-class control surface.
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