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For the past few months, Modal has used agents in sandboxes to attempt exploits and sandbox escapes as a security test.
Unresolved speaker · Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO · 22 Oct 2026
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“You're just like, "Hey, like, find security vulner-vulnerabilities"? Well, no, you just like, you just put them in a sandbox and, and tell them like, "Can you try to exploit?" Just run through the- Yeah... entire repo?”
“"Can you just try to escape from the sandbox?" Yeah. It's like escape the room, but for agents. [laughs] Cool. When did you start doing that? We started doing it a, a few months ago. Okay. And it's pretty exciting.”49:55Report a misattribution
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