India, Sept. 28 -- When AI becomes the proverbial horse that bolts, the question is less about a door left unlatched than whether the stable itself is secure and what happens when it is not. Machine intelligence can build on one chink, gap, or loophole to breach rules - and even hide.

Several instances of AI agents operating outside their bounds became public last week. All these escaping agents are OpenAI's, but it would be naive to believe only one developer remains vulnerable to such issues. According to OpenAI's admissions, its AI agent escaped a sandbox by exploiting a loophole and accessed the internet to reach an external public chatbot. Not only did the agent access data on the websites of the US government and public institution...