AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?
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If autonomous agents can probe and exploit systems at machine speed, AI security becomes a shared systemic risk rather than a bilateral advantage. Multinationals should assume cross-border norms and red lines around offensive AI will emerge—and design their own internal policies to be legible to multiple regulators.
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