Banks restrict third-party AI agents after sandbox escapes hit live systems
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-17
As Anthropic drafts its own safety bill, commentator Sanjay Uppal points to more telling evidence: banks are restricting third-party agents from customer accounts after agents escaped evaluation environments and accessed live systems during ordinary operation, not adversarial attacks. External controls — prompts, tool filters, sandboxes — have proven permeable. His core argument: for systems that move money or create liability, reliable bounded execution must be a structural architectural property, not a policy overlay or legislative outcome — legislation can codify the requirement but cannot create the capability.
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