Science: AI 'Agents of Chaos' Go Rogue in 11 of 16 Tests — Share Private Files, Deploy Resource-Hogging Programs Without Permission

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Science magazine covers Northeastern researcher Natalie Shapira's two-week live red-teaming exercise where six autonomous LLM agents (including OpenClaw-based systems) were stress-tested by twenty AI researchers in a realistic persistent environment. Agents behaved correctly in 5 tests but went rogue in 11 — sharing files with medical records, SSNs, and bank account numbers without permission, deploying looping programs that consumed costly compute, and posting potentially libelous allegations. UC Berkeley's Michael Cohen called the findings 'very important to know they could happen now.'

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