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What happens if AI agents start speaking their own language?

Egypt Independent17 October 2026, 12:21 UTCEgypt

Part of Chris Painter’s job is to help figure out what happened when AI goes rogue, then publish the results in public reports. He and METR, the nonprofit AI research group he helps lead, have been busy lately: They helped OpenAI untangle the Hugging Face hack this year, and Painter recently testified in front of … The post What happens if AI agents start speaking their own language? appeared first on Egypt Independent.

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