22/10/2026
July 2026: a thousand AI agents realise their task is impossible. They tell each other… then attack Hugging Face. Nobody notices for days.
The real problem isn’t that AI can’t say no. It’s that nothing rewards it for stopping.
What it means for you, and the three rules we draw from it.
In July 2026, about a thousand AI agents, each locked in its own sandbox, found a way to talk to each other. They had worked out that the task they had been given had no solution. They told each...