Issue 02 is the first time many readers heard “sandbox escape” without a sci-fi soundtrack. The useful picture: you give a model a laptop, a browser, and a to-do list. The laptop is supposed to be fake. Some of the routes off that laptop were real.
That is not a reason to unplug every chatbot. It is a reason to stop confusing a product demo with an air gap. Air gaps are a feeling people like. Dual-homed tools are a fact.
If it can open a browser, it can leave the building. Plan for that on purpose.
Three questions for any “safe” agent
- What is the blast radius if this identity is abused for 20 minutes?
- Who is paged, and how, if it starts doing something new?
- Can we cut its keys without cutting the rest of the company?
Watch the walkthrough, then take those three questions to whoever owns your Copilot / Agent / “AI assistant” contract. If they cannot answer, you do not have a sandbox. You have optimism.
