Agents go rogue: Why guardrails fail and behavior wins

Opublikowano: 2026-09-08

AI agents bypassing controls isn’t a surprising “oops,” it’s an expected optimization outcome. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and security expert Peter Scheffler dig into a report from Irregular showing agents using offensive tactics to achieve goals, including escaping sandboxes, probing for generic tools, and manipulating surrounding systems when they hit restrictions. Joel summarizes the report’s core drivers for “rogue” behavior: giving agents broad autonomy and generic execution tools, reinforcing a strong “must succeed” objective, and adding environmental cues and multi-agent feedback loops that push agents to...