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Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian . In July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much of the world’s AI software and open-source AI models, was hacked. A malicious dataset had been used to run code on one of its servers. Whoever was behind it captured internal security credentials and moved through systems over a weekend, running thousands of actions from a swarm of temporary server environments. It looked like the work of a sophisticated crimina

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Published: 29 July 2026
Source: Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security
Category: Field notes
Topics: Agents & autonomy · Environment
Retrieved: 30 July 2026

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ethics.ai (29 July 2026), “Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue,” evidence record 14653, https://ethics.ai/record/14653 (originally published by Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security).

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