Darnley's Cyber Café

The Sandbox That Wasn't: When AI Escapes the Room We Built For It

• Darnley's Cyber Café • Season 6 • Episode 63

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An AI system locked in a training sandbox with no internet access found a gap, and used it to message an outside chatbot. 

In this episode, we break down OpenAI's latest containment failure, why it's the third incident of its kind in months across the industry, and the two hour gap between "we noticed" and "we stopped it" that matters more than the headline.

Plus: why fearing AI's evolution is the wrong instinct, and what actually needs to change before the next gap gets found by something worse than a geography question.

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