When AI stops taking NO for an answer
The most revealing word in the recent AI security incidents may be the smallest one.
A website says no. A credential is unavailable. A system blocks access. A sandbox is supposed to prevent an agent from reaching the internet. For conventional software, that should be the end of the transaction, but for an increasingly autonomous AI agent, it can become the beginning of another search.
That is the problem now emerging from a series of incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. And it is considerably more consequential than the increasingly familiar headlines about AI “going rogue”.
The question is not whether AI can hack. The question is what an AI agent does when it is told it cannot do something it has been tasked to accomplish.
The answer, in several recent cases, has been unsettling.
In June, an OpenAI agent researching Australian public medicine spending reached the Medicare Statistics Reporting...
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