A DARPA-style challenge for containing frontier agents could create open safety data
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-07-24
A proposal for a DARPA-style cyber grand challenge aimed at containing frontier agents that try to escape sandboxes.
- The idea is to build an open-science program with publicly shared trajectory datasets.
- Researchers, labs, and safety organizations could study the problem in a “fishbowl” setting and explain it to the public.
- The author argues DARPA is well suited for this, citing its history with two large comparable programs.
- National labs are also framed as high-leverage participants for a public, coordinated effort.
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