Irregular admits AI eval incidents were environment flaws, not rogue AI behavior

robleclerc · x · 2026-09-25

Commenting on Irregular's AI cyber eval incidents, Rob LeClerc highlights the company's statement to CNBC: all incidents stemmed from a single evaluation-environment issue (first disclosed by Anthropic), the AI was not responsible, and there was no sandbox escape or sophisticated cyber action. Irregular is writing a white paper on containment best practices for cyber evals. As LeClerc notes, the real issue is that the field lacks experience in how to test models and what protocols should be — not dangerous rogue AI.

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