US Agencies Detail Incident Response Practices for Rogue AI Agents

Effective and efficient use of complex agentic systems is important for all organizations, but recognizing, preventing and recovering from them goingroguecould be an existential necessity.

NIST, the NSA, and CISA recognize the increasing potential for AI agents to behave in an unexpected and potentially harmful manner, and has responded with a list of key practices for both preparing for and responding to such behavior. The report (Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation) uses the term super intelligence (SI) rather than artificial intelligence (AI) in line with presidential executive order 14434.

In the report, the ten key practices are grouped into five stages: prepare, detect, respond, recover, and report. For clarity, the report also includes three useful terminology definitions covering AI agents, AI control incident, and AI control near-miss.

“The practices are intended to help the frontier SI...

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