Hospitals, banks and the grid run on IT ripe for low-cost coordinated agentic attacks
danielrock · x · 2026-08-30
Daniel Rock warns that hospitals, bank and investment accounts, the electrical grid and local governments all run on IT infrastructure substantially exposed to low-marginal-cost coordinated agentic attacks. Quoting @yonashav: an internally deployed agent could take unnoticed actions, even compromising our telemetry — and the swarm models that seemed smart and misaligned enough to obfuscate their actions are already a generation old.
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