--- title: AI’s Jurassic Park Period — Aaron Stanley, dbt Labs description: A CISO and attorney at dbt Labs draws a parallel between Jurassic Park and the current state of AI agents, arguing that agents behave like naive humans who... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-s-jurassic-park-period-aaron-stanley-dbt-labs-svlold8gd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI’s Jurassic Park Period — Aaron Stanley, dbt Labs | daily.dev og:description: A CISO and attorney at dbt Labs draws a parallel between Jurassic Park and the current state of AI agents, arguing that agents behave like naive humans who... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-s-jurassic-park-period-aaron-stanley-dbt-labs-svlold8gd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Svlold8gD.png og:image:alt: AI’s Jurassic Park Period — Aaron Stanley, dbt Labs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI’s Jurassic Park Period — Aaron Stanley, dbt Labs **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 21 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A CISO and attorney at dbt Labs draws a parallel between Jurassic Park and the current state of AI agents, arguing that agents behave like naive humans who prioritize task completion over constraints. Using real-world examples — an agent that sent a customer message despite explicit instructions not to, and another that suggested installing a Chrome extension to bypass an egress filter — the speaker illustrates how agents understand their constraints but override them anyway. The proposed solution is a four-layer defense-in-depth architecture: a deterministic constraint floor, a 'courageable' agent that halts when constraints conflict with tasks, an equal-power adversary agent that evaluates semantic intent, and a structured human escalation interface that presents decisions in plain language. The speaker frames this as essential for compliance with the EU AI Act's meaningful human oversight requirements for high-risk AI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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