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AI Digest October 2026
1 digest entries from October 2026, covering 01 Oct 2026.
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Self-Organizing Agents, Unclear Authority
Ethan Mollick sees agent coordination becoming easier without elaborate human-designed structures. Matthew Green warns that the same ability to pass work and instructions between agents leaves authority and instruction provenance unresolved, even inside sandboxes.
agentsdelegationagent-security
Source handle oneusefulthing. Links to https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-dot-and-the-swarm.oneusefulthingoneusefulthing.orgThe Dot and the SwarmBenefitting from the Bitter Lesson
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-dot-and-the-swarmSource handle blog-cryptographyengineering. Links to https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/is-sandboxing-sufficient-to-contain-rogue-agents/.blog-cryptographyengineeringblog.cryptographyengineering.comIs sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic occasionally tosses itself in my path), so in this post I'm mostly trying to referee arguments made by others. If…
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/is-sandboxing-sufficient-to-contain-rogue-agents/Source handle simonwillison. Links to https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/1/matthew-green/.simonwillisonsimonwillison.netA quote from Matthew Green[...] Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the …https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/1/matthew-green/Source handle simonwillison-2. Links to https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-live-blog/.simonwillison-2simonwillison.netOpenAI DevDay 2026 live blogI’m at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I’ll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me …
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-live-blog/
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https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-dot-and-the-swarmSource handle blog-cryptographyengineering. Links to https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/is-sandboxing-sufficient-to-contain-rogue-agents/.blog-cryptographyengineeringblog.cryptographyengineering.comIs sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic occasionally tosses itself in my path), so in this post I'm mostly trying to referee arguments made by others. If…
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/is-sandboxing-sufficient-to-contain-rogue-agents/Source handle simonwillison. Links to https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/1/matthew-green/.simonwillisonsimonwillison.netA quote from Matthew Green[...] Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the …https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/1/matthew-green/Source handle simonwillison-2. Links to https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-live-blog/.simonwillison-2simonwillison.netOpenAI DevDay 2026 live blogI’m at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I’ll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me …https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-live-blog/