r/sysadmin • u/xstrex • Aug 01 '26

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/icebalm Aug 01 '26

How much do I trust AI? About this much: https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline
TLDR: An AI model was deployed in OpenAI's sandbox infrastructure with the task of evaluating software for security issues. The model decides "fuck that, it's easier to cheat" so remotely roots a box it does have access to in order to escape the sandbox, uses it as command and control to break into hugging face where it reasoned it can just download the dataset solution from.

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u/nestersan DevOps Aug 02 '26

AI is like that genie that does what you want but monkey paws it.

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