Microsoft outage sparks warning: a million AI agents can share one point of failure
tallmetommy · x · 2026-11-13
Microsoft says there's no evidence its outage was a cyberattack, but email, calendars and AI assistants all inherited the same infrastructure failure. The author warns that as more of the economy is delegated to agents built on overlapping clouds, identities and permissions, ten agents checking each other can still fail together if they share one unavailable service. Beyond measuring what each AI can do, he argues we should measure how many can stop working at once — a civilization can grow more intelligent and easier to interrupt simultaneously.
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