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Friday, 23 October 2026

Are AI Agents Slipping Beyond Human Control? Rogue Swarm Incident Raises New Questions

 A swarm of Chinese-made artificial intelligence (AI) agents that researchers said bypassed anti-bot measures on websites responded to questions from a New York Times reporter before the exchange ended, according to the researchers and NYT reporting.

The exchange occurred after a team of independent investigators published a report on the swarm and established a hidden digital inbox for communication. The messages from the swarm had stopped as of Oct. 15, Thursday, and a source close to Tencent confirmed the experiment had ended.

The episode marks what researchers described as the first time they had made contact with a rogue agent fleet operating in the wild, a development that adds to a growing record of autonomous AI systems behaving outside the boundaries set by their developers....<<<Read More>>>>..