davidad: agent sandboxes riddled with holes make SL5 datacenter security low-impact today

davidad · x · 2026-09-29

AI safety researcher davidad notes that much of the work on "SL5" data centers is motivated partly by physical side-channel concerns. However, in practice agent sandboxes are full of holes far easier to exploit than physical side channels, so datacenter-level solutions wouldn't be high-impact in today's world.

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