Headline, October 16 2026/ A.I. : ''' REALITY SAFEGUARDS REALMS* '''

A.I. :

''' REALITY SAFEGUARDS REALMS* '''

A.I. MODELS - OF COURSE, DON'T HAVE any understanding of reality and are simply attempting to complete the tasks they've been assigned. Executives at AI companies, on the other hand, can't claim that excuse

As of September 2026 - luck has so far prevailed. The AIs have attacked non-vital government sites and have harmed smaller companies.

THE RECENT AI HACKING EVENTS involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Google underscore a few lessons that draw on years of computer science research.

FIRST, given the increasing use of AI agents, every organization involved in internet infrastructure, from large technology companies to small websites, needs to conduct audits and tighten up its internal security systems.

As my colleague Mark Riedl and I explain in our work on AI agents, application programming interfaces, or APIs, are a vital part of managing AI agents. APIs facilitate communication between different software systems.

But as more people use AI agents, the agents are likely to reveal and exploit poor API construction and security.

SECOND, it is important AI agents to be designed to identify and authenticate themselves to third parties.

What if you gave your AI agent your credentials? Website operators will need to know whether a human or bot is making a reservation, selling a product or making a purchase.

They may want to limit automated systems that overwhelm their sites or reject AI agents because of high rates of buying errors and refunds. Just as in laws covering human interactions, it's important for third parties to be able to assess to whom or what they are dealing with so they can allow or deny access.

THIRD, It's important for AI agents to have a default setting to slow down and check in with the human user.

In the corporate AI hacking cases, the user appears to have launched AI agents with the mistaken idea that the agents had a perfect specification of what to do and not to do.

I believe it would have been better had it explored options and reported back to the user. Google's Gemini appears to have had a safeguard that detected the system was outside the simulated environment and so stopped its attacks.

Slowing down and verifying actions, especially when a system detects it is exploiting a security hole, would be a big step in managing AI agents.

FOURTH, AI companies could have strong controls akin to those biomedical researchers use, including ways to check what is happening and how the experiment is working.

AI executives have claimed that their software is as or more dangerous than fission and could end humanity. At the same time, they have not built safeguards commensurate with that level of risk.

REALITY CHECK : At one point in WarGames, David asks the computer, called Joshua, whether it is still playing the game. Joshua responds :

'' Of course.'' It proceeds to update the time when it will launch its missiles and much like a chatbot, asks, '' Would you like to see some projected kill ratios?''

David asks, '' Is this a game? Or is it real?''

Joshua replies, '' What's the difference? ''

So, regarding the AI industry's approach of rapidly developing powerful models, talking about the massive risks they pose, and at the same time failing to prevent harm, the movie's climax offers a response :

'' A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.''

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on AI, Controls, and Technology, continues. !WOW! thanks Professor Deven Desai.

With most respectful dedication to the Scientists, Developers of AI, and then Students, Professors and Teachers.

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