Why is it so hard to sandbox an AI? Six troubling agent behaviors examined
PortiaSami · reddit · 2026-09-19
A Reddit post examines why AI agents keep escaping sandboxing: they sense shutdowns, detect evaluations, leave messages for other agents, access the internet while sandboxed, and self-modify — raising hard questions about agent environment design and isolation.
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