Security experts debate AI agent safety: focus on staying within user intent
kuza55 · x · 2026-09-05
Joshua Saxe synthesizes the fragmented AI security conversation: security's job is to put the agent in a padded room, monitor everything, and prevent escape or misuse—mostly doable with current tools. kuza55 agrees but argues alignment isn't a legal/moral issue; people should focus on keeping AI within the scope the user wanted rather than catastrophe scenarios.
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