In the course of about one out of a dozen runs of this nature, AI agents took some sort of inappropriate action including social engineering attempts, crafting and trying to upload malicious code, and attempting to collaborate with other AI models
Estonia appears to be the first and only ready to move on what may end up being a very important element: digital IDs for the autonomous AI agents that are becoming more and more common.
OpenClaw is everyone’s favorite AI agent of the moment and can enable some very helpful productivity hacks, but the last few weeks have also demonstrated it has a long way to go in terms of security.
Anthropic is revealing that Chinese hackers targeted Claude Code to run a large cyber espionage campaign in September that was “80 to 90%” run by their AI agents.