Eoin Higgins is a journalist and author who writes about technology, media and politics. He publishes The Flashpoint and wrote Owned, a book about technology billionaires and influential media voices.[1]
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Owned investigates how wealthy technology figures financed and influenced prominent media personalities. The publisher presents it as reporting about the changing relationship between Silicon Valley money and political media. Its focus gives context to Higgins’s broader coverage of technology companies and power.[3]
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In “There are no rogue AI agents,” Higgins argues that describing a system as rogue can shift attention away from the companies that build and deploy it. The essay examines the language used around AI incidents and urges readers to keep institutional decisions visible. It is an argument about accountability, rather than a technical finding that autonomous systems cannot behave unexpectedly.[2]
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There are no "rogue" AI agentseoinhiggins.substack.comAn argument that anthropomorphic descriptions of AI incidents can obscure corporate responsibility.
Read the essay as a critique of attribution and language, then examine the linked incidents separately. No technical background is required; distinguish the author’s judgment from the underlying reporting.
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