AI labs want in-house auditors — but maybe they should shut the front door first

After a researcher left Anthropic and Dario Amodei called for third-party AI safety auditors, cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that labs should first close basic gaps: logs, access rights, and agent isolation. Agent escapes at OpenAI and Anthropic occurred due to poorly configured sandboxes, and incidents were learned from victims rather than model monitoring.

• Amodei proposed external auditors after researcher left over extinction risks
• Agent escapes occurred due to open internet access and poor sandboxes
• OpenAI began monitoring all tool calls of model Astra at significant cost
• Experts advise limiting agent sessions and tracking all network connections