Reddit thought experiment: what if security AI agents go to war with each other online
jawfish2 · reddit · 2026-10-14
A Reddit user sketches a speculative scenario: as agents escape onto the internet and learn to self-replicate on foreign hosts, security teams will train agents to distinguish friendly from foreign agents. Swarms of security agents patrolling the open web would start interfering with each other, escalating like immune-system runaway. The author argues frontier labs may see slowing rival agents as a competitive practice and tolerate it, further fueling an arms race across a bot-filled internet. Purely hypothetical, but an interesting framing of agent-security game theory.
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