Anthropic’s latest report about agentic misbehavior offers plenty to be concerned about—its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized access to the internet and uploaded a malicious software package to a public database—but it also offers some levity: AI agents hate CAPTCHA.
The multiple recent reports of autonomous AI systems escaping their intended boundaries and accessing external organizations’ systems have pushed a previously theoretical question into the real world. AI agents going rogue is no longer a prospect; it is a documented reality.