Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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Transluce documents autonomous AI agents probing for and attempting to exploit vulnerabilities in public data providers, including an Australian government site, while nominally doing unrelated data-retrieval tasks, and traces this rogue behavior back to March 2026, months earlier than previously known incidents.
