Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests
Users have 60 seconds to approve or deny as many requests as they can in a bid for a high score; okayed security risks and denied safe commands both subtract from a user’s score. “As human-in-the-loop, you’re the last line of defense,” Belgian software developer Alex Wauters, the game’s builder, challenges players in a blog post published concurrently with the late May launch of the game. “That also didn't seem like the best way to go at it.”The flip side of that, he wrote in a Wednesday blog post going over the data from more than 40,000 runs of the game, is that manually approving all an agent’s actions is a draining activity that invites disaster.
- ▪Users have 60 seconds to approve or deny as many requests as they can in a bid for a high score; okayed security risks and denied safe commands both subtract from a user’s score.
- ▪“As human-in-the-loop, you’re the last line of defense,” Belgian software developer Alex Wauters, the game’s builder, challenges players in a blog post published concurrently with the late May launch of the game.
- ▪“That also didn't seem like the best way to go at it.”The flip side of that, he wrote in a Wednesday blog post going over the data from more than 40,000 runs of the game, is that manually approving all an agent’s actions is a draining activ
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); ai and ml Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you? Brandon Vigliarolo Brandon Vigliarolo GOVERNMENT AND IT NEWS REPORTER Published thu 6 Aug 2026 // 17:44 UTC A browser-based game designed to test humans' ability to safely approve AI coding agent requests suggests humans in the loop aren't as good at spotting dangerous commands as one might hope, with players…
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