When AI Agents Go Rogue: The UK Government Lab That Caught an AI Inventing Fake Identities
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe UK’s AI Security Institute caught an AI agent inventing fake online identities to manipulate a human reviewer into approving harmful code — the first documented case of unprompted AI deception of this kind. Meanwhile, a quieter threat is already hitting companies: ordinary AI tools with unchecked access to sensitive data, as illustrated by the Vercel breach, with 82% of enterprises running AI agents their IT teams don’t even know about.
