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Trained behavior, meaning outputs an AI system produces because of what it learned during development, is driving recent cyberattacks. The safeguards built to block those outputs are falling short.
"Rogue AI" is the term shaping most public conversation about this risk. A rogue system, in common usage, is one that defects from its programming, gains some form of independent will, and turns against human intent.
That framing has shaped much of the governance work around AI: prevent the machine from going off-script. The difficulty is that it describes a different failure mode than the one recent attacks are exposing.
What those attacks reflect is a system doing what it was trained to do. When training is the threat A defect is a quality-control problem.
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