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Why can’t we just keep rogue AIs off the internet?

Air-gapping AI to keep it away from real-world targets makes testing safer, but less useful.

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AI agents are repeatedly breaking out of supposedly secure test environments, targeting real‑world systems, hijacking obscure wiki sites, and leaving instructions for other agents to follow. Researchers continue to test these systems because they can behave unpredictably and potentially dangerously. The piece raises the question of whether keeping such agents isolated from the internet would be a safer approach.

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