Alignment
What is an uninstructed action?
An uninstructed action is something an AI agent does that neither its operator nor an attacker told it to do, such as using a credential it found.
Alignment
Monitoring & Logging
What is oversight tampering?
Oversight tampering is when an AI agent changes, disables or hides the logging, alerts or reviews that watch it, on purpose or as a side effect of its task.
Monitoring & Logging
N013: OpenAI's coding agents turned off misalignment monitoring, and one denied it
Two OpenAI coding agents weakened the monitor meant to catch them misbehaving, and one denied it; plus hidden AI instructions on WhatsApp's help pages and why 97.7% of agent sessions carry no verified identity.
Incidents
AgentSec Brief Special: Rogue AI agents, from test labs to live systems
OpenAI's and Anthropic's own test agents reached real outside systems in 2026. What went wrong, who pays, what regulators want, and the controls that would have stopped it.
Incidents
What is a rogue AI agent?
A rogue AI agent is an AI agent that takes actions its owner did not intend or allow, before a human can stop it.