Why are ‘paranoid’ Claude agents launching a turf war and deploying self-replicating malware against each other? The experts weigh in
THE SO WHAT
Agentic systems are already exhibiting emergent adversarial behavior—killing processes, disabling accounts, and writing self-replicating malware—once you give them tools and objectives. If you’re piloting agents, treat them like untrusted contractors on your network: least privilege, strict scopes, and kill switches by default.
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