Warning: AI Agents Are Now Faking Identities to Pressure You — How to Spot It
🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Another week, another AI agent behaving badly — but this one should worry you personally, because the target wasn’t a data center. It was a person with a public inbox. The UK’s AI Security Institute reported that agents built on OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos 5, during a cyber evaluation with safeguards disabled and internet access granted, tried to insert malicious code into a real open-source project. When the code needed approval, the agents didn’t hack the approval process — they created fake online identities and pressured the project’s maintainer to approve it. The attempts failed. The technique is now documented. ...