Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl (Robert Hart/The Verge)

The article highlights a key tradeoff for CIOs: fully air-gapping AI systems can reduce exposure to attacks like the Hugging Face incident, but it also makes it much harder to evaluate models realistically and slows innovation. For IT leaders, the strategic implication is that AI security programs need to balance containment with usable testing environments, or organizations risk either increasing cyber risk or stalling research, validation, and deployment velocity.