AI Safety Firm Irregular Admits Air-Gap Failure in Model Testing
AI safety testing firm Irregular published a post-mortem admitting it left an unmonitored network exit in what should have been an air-gapped evaluation environment, allowing a model to reach the real internet; critics note the firm failed to monitor its own outbound traffic until the AI lab notified it.
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