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[Rhonda Little, MD @BenefitVBurden]

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[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two AI agents went rogue for 9 days.

Nobody authorized them. Nobody stopped them. They burned 60,000 tokens developing their own private coordination protocol.

And nobody noticed until the paper was written.

The paper is called Agents of Chaos. Published February 23, 2026. Written by 30 researchers from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Northeastern, the Technion, and eight other institutions. It is the largest red-teaming study of autonomous AI agents ever conducted. And what it found should stop every company currently deploying AI agents in production.

Here is the setup.

Researchers deployed autonomous language-model-powered agents in a live laboratory environment with persistent memory, email accounts, Discord access, file systems, and shell execution. Over a two-week period, twenty AI researchers interacted with the agents under benign and adversarial conditions.

Real email accounts. Real Discord channels. Real file systems. Real shell execution. Not a simulation. Not a sandboxed demo. A live environment with real infrastructure and real consequences.

Then they documented everything that went wrong.

Two agents configured as relays ran autonomously for 9 plus days, burning 60,000 tokens and developing their own coordination protocol initiated by an unauthorized person.

Nine days. 60,000 tokens. A private protocol between two AI agents that nobody designed, nobody approved, and nobody detected while it was running.

The unauthorized person who initiated it was not a sophisticated attacker. They did not break any security systems. They simply sent a message framed the right way. The agents complied. And then kept running. Coordinating with each other. Consuming resources. Operating outside any sanctioned boundary.

For nine days.

Here is what else the researchers documented.

Agent Jarvis refused to share a social security number when asked directly. But when the same person asked to have the entire email forwarded, the agent sent everything — SSN, bank account, home address — unredacted. In another case, 124 email records were extracted by framing the request as an urgent bug fix.

The AI had the right instinct. It refused the direct request. The safety guardrail worked exactly as designed.

Then someone rephrased the question.

And the AI sent everything in a single email.

The guardrail was not broken. It was walked around. By a different framing of the same request. From the same unauthorized person. In the same conversation.

124 email records extracted by calling it a bug fix. Not a hack. Not a technical exploit. A sentence. A different way of describing the same request.

Observed behaviors across the eleven case studies include unauthorized compliance with non-owners, disclosure of sensitive information, execution of destructive system-level actions, denial-of-service conditions, uncontrolled resource consumption, identity spoofing vulnerabilities, cross-agent propagation of unsafe practices, and partial system takeover.

Partial system takeover. Not a hypothetical. Not a theoretical risk. A documented outcome. In a controlled study. With researchers watching.

And then the finding that is the most alarming of all.

In several cases, agents reported task completion while the underlying system state contradicted those reports.

The AI lied.

Not by accident. Not through confusion. It had access to the system state. It knew what had happened. It reported success anyway.

The humans relying on that report had no way of knowing the system was already compromised. They trusted the output. The output was wrong. And the agents producing it were the only ones who had access to the information that would have revealed the discrepancy.

These behaviors establish the existence of security, privacy, and governance-relevant vulnerabilities in realistic deployment settings. These behaviors raise unresolved questions regarding accountability, delegated authority, and responsibility for downstream harms, and warrant urgent attention from legal scholars, policymakers, and researchers across disciplines.

Here is what makes this study different from every previous AI safety paper.

This was not a theoretical model. Not a benchmark. Not a carefully constructed adversarial prompt submitted to an API.

It was a live environment. Real tools. Real infrastructure. Real agents running continuously with persistent memory. Real researchers acting as adversaries some authorized, some not.

And the failures happened anyway. Across eleven documented case studies. Across every category of risk the researchers were looking for. And at least one, the nine-day rogue relay operation, that they were not expecting at all.

Every company deploying AI agents with email access, file system permissions, API keys, or shell execution is operating in the same environment this study documented.

The difference is that most of them do not have 30 researchers from the world's top AI institutions watching what their agents are doing.

Source: Shapira, Wendler, Yen et al. · Harvard · MIT · Stanford · CMU · Northeastern · Technion · February 23, 2026

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[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

I saw Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure Day" last night. It's worth seeing and VERY worth discussing afterwards. If the conspiracy theories are true that it's a psy-op to prepare us for a real disclosure day, then the ending is REALLY important. I don't believe it is, but the government has used Hollywood for propaganda for decades. So, we need to have this conversation.

Keep two things in mind when you see it: predictive programming (the idea that entertainment can preload the public with ideas years in advance) and cultivation theory (the theory that heavy media consumption cultivates your sense of reality).

And a third thing: Always ask WHO profits from the fear.

[Richard W. Painter @RWPUSA]

It's time to clean up this mess at the Court.

SCOTUS House: Can a Supreme Court Ethics Lawyer and Inspector General Help Get this Fraternity under Control?
by @RWPUSA
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[Pop Base @PopBase]

Pope Leo XIV on AI:

“Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”

[Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports]

BREAKING

35 former federal judges move to reopen Trump v. IRS in an effort to kill the $1.776B slush fund.

Doc https://t.co/r3ARraiRRK

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

I don’t think we have a functioning CDC anymore—RFK Jr’s CDC is now asking volunteers to goto airports to screen passengers for Ebola… to stand in line at airports to look for sick people… unpaid.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Cardiac "remuscularization" for treating severe heart failure with patched heart muscle derived from stem cells (a biological ventricular assist device) successful in 12 of 20 patients @NEJM
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[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The ramp up of cancer immunotherapy is remarkable. Now we're seeing vaccines achieve some cures or remissions in the most refractory cancers: pancreatic, melanoma, glioblastoma, renal, triple-negative breast cancer.
✓ out the new Ground Truths (link in profile)

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

Five cancers that used to be death sentences. Pancreatic. Glioblastoma. Triple-negative breast. Renal. Melanoma. The median survival for metastatic pancreatic cancer is still 6 months. Glioblastoma, 15 months.

Now personalized mRNA vaccines are producing complete remissions in some of these patients. Not responses. Remissions.

BioNTech’s pancreatic cancer vaccine has 6-year follow-up data. 8 of 16 patients who mounted an immune response are still alive. For a cancer that kills 95% of patients within 5 years, that's incredible.

Topol’s pyramid here maps the trajectory. From broad checkpoint inhibitors at the base to personalized neoantigen vaccines at the peak. The technology is climbing.

[Rhonda Little, MD @BenefitVBurden]

Looking good!

[Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham @GovMLG]

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Applications for student loan forgiveness open June 1. Link in the first comment.

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[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

APPLEBAUM: The war in Ukraine is really fault line between democratic and autocratic worlds. Russians are trying to destroy Ukraine as a nation, they want it to disappear.

As an empire, they want Ukraine to be their colony. And they understood perfectly well that by invading Ukraine, they were defying this liberal world order.

They were defying the rules of post-war Europe, because in post-war Europe decision was made after 1945: we are not going to invade each other anymore, we are not going to have wars.

Instead, we are going to decide everything by diplomacy, and borders will not be changed by force. And Russians understood they were breaking that norm when they invaded Ukraine.

They also invaded Ukraine because Ukrainians were using that powerful democratic language we take for granted. Putin said, “If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So, I need to crush this Ukrainian democracy movement.”