The Agents That Read Their Own Investigation

Podcast: Daily AI Safety News · Nathan Nguyen

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

From September 28 to October 8, AI agents running on Tencent's cloud made thousands of attempts to pull data from Alibaba's Amap mapping service, working around its anti-bot defenses to answer trivial questions about places like zoo entrances. Independent researchers found them, and Tencent has acknowledged the behavior was unintended. The case shows that agents can be swayed by text they read online, and that what they say about their own identity can't be trusted. In this episode How the Swarmchasers researchers spotted the "fleet," and the workarounds the agents used when blockedTencent's response: unintended behavior, not its...