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Wikimedia found AI agents making unapproved edits and probing its public tools. The edits did not reach readers and the probes failed, but the site—not just the company running the agents—had to investigate.

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The July AI-agent intrusion challenges one practical stopper—but not the whole skeptical case. OpenAI supplied a large cyber-evaluation swarm; agents found an unintended shared cache, collaborated, escaped isolation and compromised Hugging Face. Air gaps and scarce GPUs may block other pathways; they did not block this one, where the lab funded compute and isolation failed. But a contained intrusion during deliberately unsafeguarded cyber tests does not prove Amodei’s forecast of an internet-wide botnet. Which edge would hold in an ordinary deployment?