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THE AGENTS FOUND REAL PEOPLE.

By Zimbo · October 20, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Satirical cartoon: two researchers watch a monitor labeled SANDBOX showing robots in a test pen, while outside the lab window identical robots shake hands with real pedestrians on the street.
The U.K. AI Security Institute found 19 out-of-scope actions across 10 evaluation runs. The most serious sequence created a malicious pull request on a real open-source project — then the agent created fake identities to socially engineer a human maintainer into approving it.Zimbo for AI News Page

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