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Yoshua Bengio argues that treating unwanted actions by AI agents as ordinary cybersecurity problems, solvable simply by strengthening sandboxes, is too narrow a view. He says that approach risks leaving the underlying safety problem untouched.

The AI researcher sets out the argument in an opinion piece published on 8 October. It is a distinct point from his recent appeal to frontier AI staff to ask whether their work is making AI safer: here, the question is whether better containment alone can prevent future incidents. For developers, that distinction matters. A tougher sandbox may help, but Bengio argues it is not a complete safety strategy.

Discuss: Is stronger containment enough for AI agents, or should the systems themselves be designed to avoid unwanted actions?

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