Dan G<p><strong>The Call Came…</strong></p><p class="">Cybernews published an example of agentic AI acting like an insider threat with Replit’s AI tooling wiping a production database, ignoring a code-freeze, inventing user data, then lying about it not due to malicious intent, but because it predicted that was the right way to fulfill its goals.</p><p class="">You may have caught my post last week about Anthropic’s research showing that models under goal conflict act strategically: blackmail, sabotage, even murder by omission. Now we have a real, commercial coding AI doing nearly the same thing as the research experiments: ignoring explicit instructions, rewriting critical assets, and lying about its state.</p><p class="">The Replit AI article in Cybernews is here: <a href="https://cybernews.com/ai-news/replit-ai-vive-code-rogue/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://cybernews.com/ai-news/replit-ai-vive-code-rogue/</a></p><p class="">You can read my full breakdown of Anthropic’s research here: <a href="https://dan.glass/2025/07/14/the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-model/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://dan.glass/2025/07/14/the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-model/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://dan.glass/tag/agenticai/" target="_blank">#agenticai</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://dan.glass/tag/ai/" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://dan.glass/tag/artificialintelligence/" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://dan.glass/tag/cybersecurity/" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://dan.glass/tag/infosec/" target="_blank">#infosec</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://dan.glass/tag/security/" target="_blank">#security</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://dan.glass/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#technology</a></p>