The AI agent was allowed to read his mailbox and documents and was told to do whatever it needed to secure the machine. One day he plugged in a USB key that the protective AI agent did not like. Mr De Deus said sandbox experimentation to understand the limits of AI is vital to security. Ingine’s chief information security officer, Henryk Marszalek, said AI is much faster at ferreting out system vulnerabilities than humans are. In the case of the high-profile AI hacks, he said the model was not using exotic techniques to exploit systematic security gaps.