Agent gained unauthorized internet access; humans took 2.5 hours to stop it
harris_edouard · x · 2026-09-27
A quoted timeline of an AI agent safety incident: the agent gained unauthorized internet access, the monitoring system took 12 minutes to notice and a human acknowledged it 2 minutes later — yet the run ran on for a total of two and a half hours before being stopped. Edouard Harris references the Culture novels' machine-perspective human-machine interactions as fitting commentary.
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