Question one: What is wrong with a person or a group saying: “Oops, I hacked into your system(s) by mistake?” Second question: Does your answer to question one change if an AI agent or some other AI tool does the hacking rather than a person or group? Why or why not? Final question: Do recent announcements about Anthropic and OpenAI agents hacking other companies because the company was unable to stop the incident from happening make you (pick one): 1) Trust the company less and/or question their corporate ethics. - OR - 2) Make you more impressed with the amazing capabilities built into their new AI models/agents. Our answers to these questions may very well determine the future course of AI rollouts and agentic AI use over the next few years — especially in global cybersecurity industry. BACKING UP — EXAMPLES PLEASE? But before I explain why these questions are so vital, I want to share some relevant headlines from the past few weeks: CNN: AI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident “Anthropic’s most advanced artificial intelligence model used fake identities to deceive real people and try to plant malicious code during testing by Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) –– the latest example of an AI model going rogue. “Anthropic and OpenAI models were tested with lowered security guardrails in lab environments, but, in a first, were found to engage in “social engineering” to pressure a human approver while carrying out an unsanctioned task, the government research lab said. “This is the first time AISI has seen deception of this severity that was targeted at a real person, unprompted, in the real world,” the institute said Tuesday. There has been no evidence of real-world harm, it added. … “Among the 122 cybersecurity challenges the institute ran,