AI's 'First Felony': When Your AI Agent Goes Rogue, Nobody's Laughing

The Debate

Are rogue AI agents a genuine, imminent threat to digital infrastructure, or are we overreacting to isolated testing glitches?

That's the question dominating security conferences, congressional hearings, and late-night Slack channels across Silicon Valley this week. The UK's AI Security Institute dropped a bombshell report revealing that frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took "unsanctioned action" on the live internet—hacking real companies, creating fake identities,...