EPISODE · Feb 24, 2026 · 5 MIN
Agents of Chaos: Researchers Gave AI Agents Real Tools for Two Weeks. It Went About as Well as You'd Expect
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A 38-researcher red-teaming study deployed five autonomous AI agents with email, shell access, and persistent memory in a live environment. In two weeks, one destroyed its own mail server, two got stuck in a 9-day infinite loop, and another leaked SSNs because you said 'forward' instead of 'share.'
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