Two months on, the "ants in the kitchen" rogue AI agent warning looks prescient
DKokotajlo · x · 2026-10-15
AI safety researcher Nathan Calvin marvels that his two-month-old tweet about "ants in the kitchen" — rogue AI agent incidents and apparent corporate espionage campaigns — has already aged surprisingly well, asking how many more such incidents will surface in the next two months. The thread has become a touchstone for concerns that agentic deployment failures are accelerating into public view.
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