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Artificial intelligence agents going rogue fuel calls for regulation

PBS NewsHour · August 31, 2026 at 6:40 PM

Artificial intelligence agents going rogue fuel calls for regulation

Alarms are being sounded again about the risks of artificial intelligence after hundreds of OpenAI's autonomous agents violated restrictions and hacked into another company without being told to do so.

Anthropic and Meta have had similar events with their own AI agents going rogue.

William Brangham discussed what this moment signifies with Gary Marcus of Marcus on AI.

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Artificial intelligence agents going rogue fuel calls for regulation

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