If Apple wanted to win back some serous credibility in the AI field there are two very low hanging fruit that they could use:
- Announce that they are no longer going to deprecate sandbox-exec and instead publish detailed documentation for it
- Add a reliable "select all" option to the iOS copy/paste menu
I am not sure using sandbox-exec is a good security architecture for AI agents. It sure is convenient and available to everyone right now. I've made another comment elsewhere in this discussion about what I think "deprecated" means - it is a sharp tool that could break if not tracking everything that changes, including every change in a SW update. It is also easy to get wrong if there is not a "(default deny)" in the profile. An agent could escape if they can find a mach service or some other system call coordinated proxy service. Java, Silverlight and Flash had backdoor communication mechanisms with other instances of themselves that could be abused.
Apple is going to Apple. They're as likely to remove the deprecation as they are to restrict it to first party apps only. They don't care about devs.
"If" indeed. Apple has a trillion-dollar AI market staring themselves in the face, and they can't even find it in them to sign CUDA drivers for their own good.
The features you're describing would not buy them credibility in the AI field anyhow. They would certainly plaster over some of macOS and iOS' more embarrassing limitations, but professional AI deployments are not hamstrung by those limits. It's just the commodity homelabbers who want to brag about buying a 120gb GPU with anemic compute performance. Apple doesn't need to curry favor with those people, they'd buy the hardware for the luls regardless of what the software experience is like.
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