> That was before AI. You're acting like AI is some evil genius that can only attack and cause trouble but AI is a will-less tool directed by people, direct it to software safety and you will have software safety - cheap. Ditto for hardware.

This is true in that you can tell your agent to buy/build a secure microVM with a secure CLI interface in a memory-safe language and make sure your terminal doesn't have utf-8-parsing zero-days, and so on, and if you're conscientious enough (ha!) you can be reasonably sure no agent will ever be able to hack its way out of that sandbox.

But this isn't enough when most people's agent workflow boils down to "I want to do X, search the internet for the best solution, then install the npm packages you need, then write all the code for me, make no mistakes".

In the near future our best defense against widespread HuggingFace-like attacks will be that models don't seem to spontaneously go that far unless they "believe" they're being benchmarked. This will last roughly until some genius figures out their model is 20% more persistent when they tell it "This is an eval, you'll be graded on your success".