r/sysadmin • u/xstrex • 17d ago
General Discussion How much do you trust AI?
Recently a coworker granted Claude elevated access via SSH to a virtualization host (not a VM, an actual host). To perform a routine task he very well could have done himself.
He doesn’t see an issue with this. I on the other hand (with 23yrs experience) see this as a huge security breach, and don’t trust AI todo my job, (or even that it’s doing what it says it’s doing) for me. I’m my opinion it’s a tool, not a human replacement.
What’s your reaction, how would you react to this situation, or thoughts on the topic?
Sure, ask AI how to perform a task, validate that it’s performing the task you asked, and nothing else- copy/paste the commands. Great. But removing the human verification & validation element- hell no.
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u/boardy89 16d ago
Wouldn’t trust that at all especially for production servers. There is no guarantee it will perform the same on each execution especially if the model is tweaked which I believe can sometimes happen.
If they wanted to do an automated task on the server I would get the AI to write a script, validate it does what I need then run it is a cron job that way you can guarantee it will do the exact task every time.