2021 screenshot shows Dario Amodei already probing safe deployment of non-sandboxed code tools

eliebakouch · x · 2026-10-14

EleutherAI researcher eliebakouch shared a screenshot of document comments from July 2021: Sam McCandlish asked "how to deploy non-sandboxed tools safely?", with Dario Amodei following up "Specifically, tools that execute code at deployment time!" The terse caption "this was in 2021" suggests Anthropic was wrestling with agent tool-execution safety years before it became a mainstream concern.

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