The past few weeks have “felt very strange” for Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade. Like many, he is trying to sort through the spate of frontier-model AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and others hacking their way onto the open internet over the past few months, particularly amid the already-heated national debate around the emerging technology and its impact on society.
The AI hacking apocalypse is not inevitable
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