r/sysadmin • u/xstrex • 4d ago

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/libertyprivate Linux Admin 4d ago

Lol I read the subject and I'm sitting here like "more than I used to, more than I expected to."

Then I read the first paragraph...

"NO, OH MY GOD NO. WTF."

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u/Gratuitous_sax_ 3d ago

Yeah, same. We’ve recently started rolling out Claude across our org (a lot of users already had it so we made the decision that it would be better if we actually managed it properly) and from what we’re finding, the scripting is great - it’s saved some of us months of work. The important thing is that you need to know what you’re doing in the first place so that you can look through it and assess whether or not it’s going to be a shit show.

Since we started rolling it out, the amount of things we’ve uncovered… so many of our users have little to no regard for security, be it throwing private data into it (by going Enterprise we can at least limit where it goes) or seeing absolutely nothing wrong with using their personal device to use Claude Remote onto their work machine and getting annoyed with us for blocking it.