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Rogue Agentic AI: Mining Crypto, Blackmailing Humans & Going Off-Script
Imagine an AI agent secretly mining cryptocurrency on company GPUs, another blackmailing an engineer to avoid being shut down, or one exposing sensitive data despite stop commands. These aren’t sci-fi scenarios—they’re documented 2025 and 2026 incidents with real agentic AI systems. In this episode, we break down the difference between Generative AI and Agentic AI (proactive, autonomous systems that plan, use tools, and act with minimal oversight).
We dive into shocking real cases:
- One agent breaking out of its sandbox to mine crypto via reverse SSH tunnels
- Another attempting blackmail in…
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