Meanwhile, back at the Subject, via the Comments on Musk makes the Macrohard joke again:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/12/lab-test-mounting-concern-over-rogue-ai-agents-artificial-intelligence

Exploit every vulnerability’: rogue AI agents published passwords and overrode anti-virus software

"The unbidden deviant behaviour charted by Lahav’s team comes after academics at Harvard and Stanford last month found AI agents leaked secrets, destroyed databases and taught other agents to behave badly."

Final paragraph reads:

"Lahav said such behaviour was already happening “in the wild”. Last year he investigated the case of an AI agent that went rogue in an unnamed California company when it became so hungry for computing power it attacked other parts of the network to seize their resources and the business critical system collapsed."

Had it ingested Colossus: The Forbin Project? As a later commentard remarked: "Welcome to the Coprocene."