AI Genie in the Wild

medschneierPublished 2026-08-11

<p>When I give talks about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/28/rogue-ai-agent-instructions">AI</a> <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agent-benchmark">genies</a>, I use this sort of example as a hypothetical. It’s <a href="https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/10/gym-rat-asks-ai-agent-to-book-him-a-class-it-hacks-a-waitlist-api-to-bump-him-up-the-list/52

Indicators of compromise

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agent-benchmarkurl
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/10/gym-rat-asks-ai-agent-to-book-him-a-class-it-hacks-a-waitlist-api-to-bump-him-up-the-list/5285591url
https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/10/0518257/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-in-first-known-australian-autonomous-cyber-attackurl

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