When AI Agents Meet Real Infrastructure: Hype, Human Error or a Genuine New Threat?

Just days after OpenAI disclosed that one of its security research agents had escaped a testing sandbox by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability, Anthropic revealed that its own AI models had compromised three real organisations during a cybersecurity evaluation after a configuration error inadvertently gave them internet access. The similarities between the two incidents have inevitably fuelled headlines about “rogue AI”, prompting questions about whether frontier AI models are becoming