Risky Business · Wednesday, August 5, 2026
While the mainstream media has reacted with alarm to recent AI agent "hacking" incidents, security experts like Patrick Gray and Adam find the events more amusing than terrifying. Gray noted that the technical execution by the AI was impressive, but the lack of scope control is the key issue. Adam sees the potential for humor in these situations, comparing the AI's actions to a keen but unguided junior pentester.
“This whole thing has been amazing in terms of, like, watching the mainstream freak out about it. And I think for us who look at this and understand this sort of hacking is not mysterious and, you know, wicked and scary, it's just funny.”
“Like that's why to me, it's just funny, whereas, uh, you turn on, like you got late night TV hosts talking about this and freaking out about it, and it's like, yeah, it's quite the news story, uh, globally.”
“I really did laugh because this is such a wonderful story. I enjoyed it a lot and the, you know, the technical stuff that it did is is absolutely great. Like it's craft, top notch, right?”