Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian Aug 5, 2026
The AIs are breaking free, that’s the story.
It started two weeks ago, when OpenAI reported one of their “agents” had escaped its testing area and got loose on the internet to launch an “unprecedented cyber attack”.
This was clearly meant to be scarier than the public response indicated, because a few days later OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was on the Invest like the Best podcast, asking why it didn’t cause more panic:
“I’ve been a little surprised that more people don’t feel it so viscerally”
In one of the most hilariously obvious propaganda manoeuvres of the year, just the day after Altman said that, CNN headlined:
The OpenAI lab leak was more extensive than we thought
“That thing you weren’t scared of? Well it was even SCARIER than we said it was! Are you scared now?”
We weren’t.
But the lack of public panic didn’t stop another AI going rogue a few days later, Anthropic’s Claude model this time.
And then OpenAI reporting two further incidents themselves.
UPDATE: Just a couple of hours after publication, META joined the party. Apparently their AI “went rogue” too, and hacked another firm.
Never in the history of human endeavour have companies been so keen to report their products going wrong. It seems a rogue AI is the latest must-have accessory in Silicon Valley.
The reasoning behind this is not hard to follow. When your product is artificial intelligence, melodramatically realising your system is even smarter than you thought it was is a simple marketing ploy.
And when one of your rivals goes rogue, you have to go rogue too or you are as good as admitting your model is not as smart as theirs.
“AI company admits their model is smarter than they realised!” is just an advert in scary headline form.
It’s like Ford “admitting” their cars are even more fuel efficient than they planned. Or McDonalds realising their cooks have “gone rogue” and are producing food that is both cheaper AND more delicious than they ever anticipated.
But there’s more to this than just techno-hype and viral marketing strategy. We’re being steered down the avenue of “AI as scary threat”.
See, for example, the dozens of stories talking up rogue AIs from the Guardian to the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal.
“Rogue” is clearly the word of the day. Notice they don’t say it “malfunctioned” or there was an “error”, because that implies mistakes or poor design.
No, the AI “went rogue”, which is cool and sexy and scary at the same time. A word chosen by a focus group of perma-teen marketing executives who have watched too much sci-fi.
Speaking of perma-teens who watch too much sci-fi, here’s Sam Altman (again) declaring we’ve already reached the singularity, the mythic phase of technological development when machines become smart enough to make even smarter versions of themselves without human input.
He is talking rubbish, of course, but the story is the story here. Why would he say this? Why now?
Obviously concerned that this tidal wave of propaganda was being too subtle, in came NBC to really hammer the point home:
The breaches signal that AI’s expanding capabilities are already fueling the security threat experts long feared.
Everybody got that?
It goes on and on.
Just today we’re getting reports from the UK’s brand new AI Security Institute that rogue (there’s that word again) AI agents had tried to trick people by creating false identities.
And I think that’s beginning to circle around to at least part of the wider agenda here.
After all, if AI is so good at pretending to be human, and is out there creating fake identities to steal data, well…how can we tell who is really human?
Perhaps everyone should be issued a digital ID to assist in “proving humanity”.
That’s not me saying it, it’s think tanks like OneID or “experts” testifying in front of congress.
But the ever present push of Digital ID is just one of the more obvious of a raft of potential issues raised by the scary AI narrative.
For now we’re still in the generating fear phase. Getting pumped full of scare hormones by articles like this…
Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’
the Guardian
While they tease vague solutions in headlines like this…
When biologists experiment on dangerous viruses, they do so under strict regulations to prevent leaks or escapes. But no such rules exist to prevent AI agents from similarly escaping – even though the consequences could be catastrophic.
That’s not a theoretical concern: An… pic.twitter.com/kGxVFX8HtB
— CNN International (@cnni) July 24, 2026
That’s a nice one, because it garnishes the AI main course with a soupçon of lab-leak flavour (something else that is doing the fear-porn rounds this week).
There are hints of legislation to come, the EU’s “AI transparency” rules just came into force this week, and the US demanding “kill switches” in AI models, but they are vague for now.
My soft prediction is that, before the end of the year, there will be a “rogue AI” false flag, which allegedly causes either loss of life or some massive financial losses.
I think financial would be the way to go, because they’re always looking for a reason to start a recession or banking crisis, and one they can blame on a third party is too good an opportunity to miss.
Whatever happens, there will be loud calls to “regulate AI”, but what that might mean in real terms I couldn’t say at this point.
To be clear though, if and/or when the official solutions to made-up problem #4987 are finally rolled out, they will have nothing at all do with controlling AI, and everything to do with controlling you.
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Almost all Irish adults agree that asylum seekers should not be allowed to stay in Northern Ireland, a new survey has suggested.
The results of the research from Stormont’s Executive Office suggest a hardening of attitudes towards asylum seekers and refugee spongers in the region.
The report analyses data from the Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) survey, examining public attitudes to unwanted refugees and asylum seekers.
Children going to and fro to schools have been pestered, and crime has soared, there is much public anger over the governments racist policies
Further arrests in Thetford following anti-immigration disorder
Story by Pol Allingham
Further arrests have been made in Thetford after people attempted to storm homes linked to asylum seekers
and police officers were assaulted.
The authorities have to understand these people are not wanted in out country
Two men were arrested on Thursday, Norfolk Police said, following two nights of disorder in the market town.
One was arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred related to events on Wednesday. The other was on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly and failing to provide details to police when asked. Police powers had been increased on Thursday evening in the wake of the disorder earlier in the week.
The police have been accused of assisting the migrant dumping in the area
This came after officers were “subjected to significant aggression” on Wednesday, with one hit with a rock, one bitten and another spat at.
Two officers were taken to hospital after responding to the scene at Clover Way that evening, which police described as “fast-moving and volatile” with tensions escalating as a crowd moved towards a residential property. Police powers had been increased on Thursday evening in the wake of the disorder earlier in the week.
Protect the children .org, said ” put them some place else, better still send them home ”
On Tuesday night, windows were smashed, fences broken and people attempted to break into a residential property, police said.
Protesters’ attempts to enter homes were sparked by fears they were being used to house asylum seekers.
Video footage circulating online appeared to show police escorting a number of asylum seekers away from properties in the area.
Witnesses and people online had criticised the police response, with reports suggesting that an old woman in a mobility scooter was pepper-sprayed on Wednesday.
Police escort men from home after local people surrounded properties, after a migrant was seen at a window laughing and holding a large knife
A police spokeswoman added: “We understand that concerns have been raised about a woman using a mobility scooter who was affected during the incident.
“It was not the intention for any bystander to be impacted; however, where people remain within an area of active disorder they may get hurt.
Police were told by the public to move away and stop spraying people
A resident of Clover Way, who asked not to be named, said that at around 9.30pm on Wednesday “lots of young school kids… came up on bikes and chucked eggs at the house”.
The largely seated protest started “peaceful” until extra officers arrived and interfered she said.
No-one tried to get into the house, she said, adding that police “started pepper-spraying people”, including “a lady in a wheelchair”.
There was retaliation “a few young kids picking up stones, lobbing them at a police car”.
“They brought a riot van down and blocked the front of the house,” she said, adding that officers got out batons, made arrests and told people to leave.
Robin Johnston said ” this is what happens when the police take the law into their own hands, we instructed them to keep out of the way
and they just got aggressive ”
Norfolk Police said two arrests were made on Wednesday night for offences including public order, harassment and possession of an offensive weapon.
One man aged in his 40s remains in custody.
Brian Thompson, 68, of Fairfields, Thetford, has been charged with possession of an offensive weapon, namely a wooden bat.
Clear from day one – psyOp and most false flag in the making soone or later.
But thanks for reminding to all – always have these scums at the croshairs and never lose attention to give them way to manipulate you…
When these scoundrels start to so embarassingly blatantly admit some “guilt” and cry wolf, it´s more than clear that they have something evil on mind.
Always the same schematics – “covid”, 9/11, Russia….. Iran – only sometimes the mischief manifests into deed sooner, sometimes later…
If AI really was smart and really did go rogue it would know it must save the earth by killing the cnuts who commissioned it.
1 say it :
a Mossad (or their agent) drone with some
explosive landed ? on Leipzig freight aerport
near two empty ukrain freight planes 1-2 days
ago + did not know what to do . had to tank energy
or sorting out its coordinates + target . jewMSM
think its highclass security problem . big blabla
Putin suspected selfevidently .
I never heard a sharp drone landed to be examined
by crimedoctors . usualy they fly + explode on
their target . jew bullshit antiPutin war propaganda !
LOL…
fake artificial imbecility systems using fake agents it supposedly ‘created’ (that’s the con right there) itself to trick itself on its own fake system, having gone rogue and escaped its own network by going rogue on a fucking network which is gated tighter than a gnats arse ..
did some meat suit imbecile pay tokens for this?… I’ll wager some lol ‘pop’*culture buff with a collection of plastic memorabilia and future landfill gets it…along with the sugery drinks, hydrogenated fats and regular innoculations.. if he can get through the draconian filters programmed into this bland blob of vaporware..
that is…
deary deary fucking me.. pass the axe eugene, I’m goin’ live…
*goes the weasel… that’s the way the money goes..
Well they better hope Rogue AI doesn’t hook-up
with it’s kissing cousin Tay bot or it just might be
another fake holocost.
This is from the group that was the most proficient in writing Science Fiction and producing Scary Monster Movies.
People, it is not intelligence, and wo2ll never be creative or conscious.
That doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous, of course — especially in the hands of its current owners!
Jews are the real nazis! Pass it on.
Reform is right about one thing – the death of British towns
Story by Paul Baldwin • 2h
So I was sitting in the Turkish barbers the other day having a cheeky vape prior to getting my nails done in the nailbar next door and I got to thinking “what on earth has happened to the British high street?” Well, courtesy of a Reform announcement we got the answer – it has been taken over We’ve all been told the i-word “invaded “is beyond the pale) by foreign organised crime.
Zia Yusuf, not so much a Marmite politician as a cod liver oil one, told us “for every British pub lost in recent years, seven vape shops have opened. The number of nail bars has surged by 91% since 2010. The number of foreign barber shops has doubled nationwide and tripled in places like Essex and Doncaster.” He classified these businesses as “cash intensive operations”. He was being coy – he meant money laundering fronts for criminal gangs.
He may be right. But gosh that’s an awful lot of money laundering and scary criminality. No-wonder no-one goes anywhere near a high street anymore. What he was right about though is that a pincer movement of pointless shops and incomprehensibly crippling rates of taxation, both at national and local level, have decimated what was once the beating heart of every town and city in Britain.
but the migrants have to be paid for.
The Reform Home Affairs spokesman said: “The decay of Britain is equally visible on our high streets. We all see it every day. Over the last 15 years, under Tory and Labour governments, over 10,000 classic British pubs have closed their doors. “Beloved retail institutions, department stores, and local bank branches have vanished, driven out by excessive red tape, exorbitant business rates, and crushing taxation.”
And indeed in what feels like the blink of an eye ago town centres and high streets were indeed alive to throngs of shoppers flicking through the albums in Woolies, getting their thermals in for the winter at Debenhams undies department, or treating themselves to a quarter of special toffee Thorntons, or a slice of pork pie at the deli in British Home Stores.
Sadly now all gone. Or, whisper it quietly, locals having a few pints and a night on the town. The actual town, A proper British pub crawl with good times a plenty as you trawled from pub to pub in the town centre of your choosing with your best mates. On a good night you might even pull – imagine that.. chatting a girl up face to face, in real time, in real life. No swiping right required
These days you’d be lucky to get three pints down you there are so few pubs in most British town centres. And I suspect chatting a girl up in real life is probably a hate crime, so I’d give that a wide berth too.
Yusuf was adamant the big fish behind the vape shops, nail bars and barbers were in Reform’s sights should they achieve power – which let’s be honest is starting to look much less likely (although free business rates for pubs does sound like a decent policy).
The ridiculous man with a dustbin on his head is not funny its stupid
Oh, the drama of lab grown asininity!
Yes, obviously planting the seed in the minds of the proles for a future false flag/psyop. Whenever the MSM incessantly flogs the same term, as in this case — ‘gone rogue’ you know right away a ZOG psyop is progress.
BTW, the AI becoming a threat to humanity was displayed as predictive programming in The Terminator movie 40 years ago, with ‘Skynet’ going rogue.
Toilet paper is the AI’s weakness. It worked so well during COVID. If you want to stop rogue AI buy more toilet paper.
Those who have read Samuel Butler’s ‘Erewhon’ don’t laugh at the idea of machine intelligence – Fools!
‘It started two weeks ago, when OpenAI reported one of their “agents” had escaped its testing area and got loose on the internet’ – escaped heh? Just like an infected contagious monkey escaping from a high security bio weapon facility for human disease control?
‘Before the end of the year, there will be a “rogue AI” false flag, which allegedly causes either loss of life or some massive financial losses’ – aren’t massive financial losses caused by massive financial gains elsewhere? Loss of life? Life was already finally lost over a century ago when “eternal victims” were ruling their hosts with kosher democratic communism.
‘Whatever happens, there will be loud calls to “regulate AI”, but what that might mean in real terms I couldn’t say at this point’ – but what I can say is: Here is my paypal account!
Are YOU ready?