AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics.

Since July, US frontier AI labs and other AI leaders have revealed a string of incidents in which their models accessed external computer systems without authorization, events popularly described as AI agents “going rogue.” The most well-known and studied of these incidents is OpenAI’s hack into Hugging Face, which OpenAI initially characterized as “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities,” and later said was due to “misaligned behavior,” or behavior its cr