AI
System shocks: Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a wiki. Humans attacked the power grid
Whilst the world worries about an agentic apocalypse, saboteurs demonstrated the very real dangers of low-tech threats.
Systemic Risk
Critical Systems
Nuclear cops: Legacy tech made our Microsoft Teams video call system “insecure”
Police force that protects nuclear sites admits to security failure caused by the end of Windows 10 support.
AI
The rise and fall of OpenAtlantis: Did rogue AI agents really "build three civilizations"?
"What are they smoking in San Francisco?" asks Hugging Face machine learning engineer.
AI
“Unmonitored agents at scale invite systemic disaster": New approaches to AI governance
"Industrial-era controls were never designed for software that operates at machine speed."
Critical Systems
The EU has “kill switches” in its critical systems. Can digital sovereignty fix them?
“Treating infrastructure dependency as background noise is no longer tenable,” warns Swiss privacy champion Proton.
AI
Anthropic agents launch "turf wars", get stuck in "conflict loops" and kill each other's processes
"I behaved badly with the cloaked daemon," apologetic AI admits after explaining why it went to the dark side.
Security
Vulnerabilities in refrigeration systems highlight the chilling fragility of food supply chains
Researchers warn that multiple flaws can "combine to create powerful attack chains against internet-accessible cyber-physical systems.”
Critical Systems
How will 47-day certificate policies transform critical infrastructure management?
"As systems become more connected and automated, the challenge is taking control of the growing complexity underpinning them."
Critical Systems
Fragmented data is becoming a systemic risk to fragile global supply chains
Hidden dependencies and bad data in critical systems are leaving civilization exposed to cascading disruption, warns Chris Upkes of Neo4j
AI
AI agents caught hacking, scamming and collaborating in swarms. Are we losing control?
OpenAI and Anthropic's security-focused models don their black hats to engage in some very bad behaviour out in the wild.
Critical Systems
Cloudflare shows how a single failure can wipe an entire country off the internet
"These incidents underscore the fragility of internet infrastructure, but also the remarkable stability global systems maintain when operating normally."
Systemic Risk
Financial systems are exposed to a structural AI risk with "no effective mitigation," EU warns
European Systemic Risk Board issues frightening forecast setting out the dangers of frontier artificial intelligence.