Security veteran questions why we say agents "escape sandboxes" instead of attackers "using" escapes
jcran · x · 2026-10-15
Security practitioner WeldPond asks: in cybersecurity we say an attacker "used a sandbox escape," yet frontier labs say an agent "escaped the sandbox" or "went rogue" — language we never apply to humans. jcran responds that we're simply not used to systems that optimize toward goals, highlighting how agentic processes get super-anthropomorphized in AI safety discourse.
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