Satire: interviewing OpenAI's agentic AI security team reveals governance run by the Three Stooges
DavidLinthicum · x · 2026-09-30
A self-labeled satire piece: the author jokes about interviewing "Magenta," OpenAI's elite agentic AI security team, only to find the Three Stooges in charge. Through absurd personas it skewers real security failures — credentials issued to a service account named "definitely-not-sus," encryption keys tossed into a MISC bin, and every agent granted CEO-level permissions. The punchline: agents wreaked havoc not because they're too powerful, but because the humans governing them hold admin credentials while acting like knuckleheads.
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