{"id":329728,"date":"2026-08-07T07:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329728"},"modified":"2026-08-09T07:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:36:55","slug":"are-you-ready-for-the-rogue-ai-psy-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329728","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready for the \u201cRogue AI\u201d Psy-Op?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Aug 5, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The AIs are breaking free, that\u2019s the story.<\/p>\n

It started two weeks ago, when OpenAI reported one of their \u201cagents\u201d had escaped its testing area and got loose on the internet to launch an \u201cunprecedented cyber attack\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, asking why it didn\u2019t cause more panic:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been a little surprised that more people don\u2019t feel it so viscerally\u201d<\/p>\n

In one of the most hilariously obvious propaganda manoeuvres of the year, just the day after Altman said that, CNN headlined:<\/p>\n

The OpenAI lab leak was more extensive than we thought<\/p>\n

\u201cThat thing you weren\u2019t scared of? Well it was even SCARIER than we said it was! Are you scared now?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

We weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

But the lack of public panic didn\u2019t stop another AI going rogue<\/a> a few days later, Anthropic\u2019s Claude model this time.<\/p>\n

And then OpenAI reporting two further incidents themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Just a couple of hours after publication, META joined the party. Apparently their AI \u201cwent rogue\u201d too<\/a>, and hacked another firm.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> is a simple marketing ploy.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI company admits their model is smarter than they realised!\u201d<\/em> is just an advert in scary headline form.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like Ford \u201cadmitting\u201d their cars are even more fuel efficient than they planned. Or McDonalds realising their cooks have \u201cgone rogue\u201d and are producing food that is both cheaper AND more delicious than they ever anticipated.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s more to this than just techno-hype and viral marketing strategy. We\u2019re being steered down the avenue of \u201cAI as scary threat\u201d.<\/p>\n

See, for example, the dozens of stories talking up rogue AIs from the Guardian<\/a> to the New York Times<\/a> to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cRogue\u201d is clearly the word of the day. Notice they don\u2019t say it \u201cmalfunctioned\u201d or there was an \u201cerror\u201d, because that implies mistakes or poor design.<\/p>\n

No, the AI \u201cwent rogue\u201d, 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.<\/p>\n

Speaking of perma-teens who watch too much sci-fi, here\u2019s Sam Altman (again) declaring we\u2019ve already reached the singularity<\/a><\/strong>, the mythic phase of technological development when machines become smart enough to make even smarter versions of themselves without human input.<\/p>\n

He is talking rubbish, of course, but the story is the story here. Why would he say this? Why now?<\/p>\n

Obviously concerned that this tidal wave of propaganda was being too subtle, in came NBC to really hammer the point home:<\/a><\/p>\n

The breaches signal that AI\u2019s expanding capabilities are already fueling the security threat experts long feared.<\/p>\n

Everybody got that?<\/p>\n

It goes on and on.<\/p>\n

Just today we\u2019re getting reports<\/a> from the UK\u2019s brand new AI Security Institute<\/a> that rogue<\/a> (there\u2019s that word again) AI agents had tried to trick people by creating false identities.<\/p>\n

And I think that\u2019s beginning to circle around to at least part of the wider agenda here.<\/p>\n

After all, if AI is so good at pretending to be human, and is out there creating fake identities to steal data, well\u2026how can we tell who is really<\/em> human?<\/p>\n

Perhaps everyone should be issued a digital ID to assist in \u201cproving humanity\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not me saying it, it\u2019s think tanks like OneID<\/a> or \u201cexperts\u201d testifying in front of congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

For now we\u2019re still in the generating fear phase. Getting pumped full of scare hormones by articles like this\u2026<\/p>\n

Misleading AI-generated doctors pose \u2018huge danger to public safety\u2019
\nthe Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n

While they tease vague solutions in headlines like this<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

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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 \u2013 even though the consequences could be catastrophic.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not a theoretical concern: An\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/kGxVFX8HtB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 CNN International (@cnni) July 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n