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Dan Wallach

Expert technical resident, RAND's Center on AI, Security, and Technology

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“People started these experiments and weren’t watching them. That’s an absence of control. And then they’re surprised by what happened.”
AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics.CSO Online, October 14, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Wallach, speaking to CSO about the Hugging Face incident, which Wallach says went on for days unnoticed.
“It’s not rocket science to isolate one of these AI things. Security people have been talking about how to do either air-gapping, so there’s literally no electrical way for data to get from here to here, or absent that, to have really strong egress control”
AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics.CSO Online, October 14, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Wallach, speaking to CSO about isolating AI systems under test.

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  1. NewsCSO OnlineSpeaks

    AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics.

    In a news analysis, CSO Online reports that cybersecurity experts it interviewed attribute recent AI-agent hacking incidents to weak containment and monitoring by frontier labs rather than to agents with minds of their own. Neither Anthropic nor OpenAI responded to its requests for comment.