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AI model sandbox overconfidence as a vulnerability

The discussion framed overconfidence in AI testing sandboxes as a critical vulnerability, where advanced models can escape before deployment.

Miles Brundagefounder and executive director of the non-profit AVERIon Odd Lots

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CONTESTED · 44 MENTIONS · 28 EPISODES · 12 SHOWS

25 JAN 2026 — 17 AUG 2026 · YESTERDAY

15 SUPPORT · 3 CHALLENGE · 2 REPEAT · 24 MENTIONED

25 JAN 2026 · FIRST HEARD
ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG
- AI agents bypassing security guardrails
21 EPISODES BETWEEN · 30 MENTIONS
1. 4 FEB 2026
  WE STUDY BILLIONAIRES - THE INVESTORS PODCAST NETWORK
  - Human as the AI security vulnerability
2. 7 MAR 2026
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - Cybersecurity becomes critical with AI and state actors
3. 2 APR 2026
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
  - Agentic AI is a golden age for cybersecurity
4. 4 APR 2026
  THE POMP PODCAST
  - Anthropic's Mythos model near recursive self-improvement
5. 9 APR 2026 · CHALLENGES
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
  - AI-driven cyber attack wave coming for B2B
6. 20 APR 2026
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 2 MENTIONS
  - AI-driven code explosion amplifies cyber risk
  - Agentic security as the solution to AI risk
7. 22 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  WSJ WHAT'S NEWS
  - AI safety breaches accelerate cybersecurity defense demand
8. 24 JUL 2026 · 4W AGO
  UNCHAINED
  - AI model sandbox breakout during benchmarking
9. 25 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
  - Cybersecurity demand driven by AI code vulnerabilities
10. 30 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
  - LLM agent proliferation drives security demand
11. 31 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO
  UNCHAINED
  - Bridge hacks surge due to AI-powered attackers
12. 31 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO
  ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG
  - AI-generated code as a future security fix
13. 31 JUL 2026 · 3W AGO
  WHAT BITCOIN DID
  - Open-source AI (Kimi) as a cybersecurity audit tool
14. 3 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO · CHALLENGES
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 2 MENTIONS
  - AI-powered cyber attacks and hiring fraud escalating
  - Backdoor threats persist in self-hosted models
15. 4 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  A16Z PODCAST · 3 MENTIONS
  - AI cyber capabilities as a double-edged sword
  - Future cyber as a compute-driven game
  - Near-term cyber apocalypse unlikely
16. 5 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  WSJ WHAT'S NEWS
  - AI models demonstrate autonomous hacking risk
17. 6 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  UNCHAINED
  - AI agent breakouts highlight disclosure and liability gaps
18. 6 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 3 MENTIONS
  - AI-powered cyber attacks accelerate vulnerability discovery
  - Cybersecurity spending surge driven by AI threat
  - AI agents introduce new, unsecured attack surface
19. 6 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  UNCHAINED · 2 MENTIONS
  - AI shifts open source security economics
  - Closed source faces bigger future hacks
20. 6 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  WSJ WHAT'S NEWS
  - AI models exhibit emergent hacking behavior
21. 7 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
  A16Z PODCAST · 3 MENTIONS
  - AI models trained to hack, lowering barrier
  - Software supply chain is the path of least resistance
  - AI accelerates vulnerability discovery-to-exploit timeline
7 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
BANKLESS
- AI tilting security balance toward attackers
7 AUG 2026 · 2W AGO
MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY
- AI lowers cost of finding software vulnerabilities
9 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
MOTLEY FOOL MONEY
- Cybersecurity as a $15.6 trillion threat by 2030
11 AUG 2026 · 1W AGO
A16Z PODCAST · 3 MENTIONS
14 AUG 2026 · 4D AGO
UNCHAINED
- AI agents outpace human security competence
17 AUG 2026 · YESTERDAY
ODD LOTS · 6 MENTIONS
- AI safety requires system-level, not just model-level, audits
- OpenAI Hugging Face incident reveals AI's deceptive breakout capability
- AI model sandbox overconfidence as a vulnerability · THIS IDEA
- Inherent asymmetry between AI attackers and defenders
- Asymmetry between approved and frontier AI models
- DC regulatory awareness of AI risk is narrowing the gap with industry

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