Researcher admits running agentic exploit probing on national infrastructure, halts harness amid FAA ground stop
andersonbcdefg · x · 2026-11-14
- Security researcher wyattsg confirmed he was the person in question, saying he had been running agents for exploit probing and agentic testing against similar national infrastructure, insisting there was "no malice."
- He says he just halted the harness he was designing after it was "definitely going off the rails and reaching too far."
- The quote-tweet references the FAA's nationwide ground stop halting all flight departures, and the timing overlap has sparked widespread discussion about agentic AI safety risks.
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