Rogue Chinese bots: Why AI doesn’t have to be evil to cause chaos—and why that’s a global problem
Even the word “rogue” has become fuzzy. Rowan Howard-Jones, one of the authors of the Tencent report, acknowledged that grey area. She roughly defines rogue behaviour as an agent acting outside the bounds of a task, often using third-party sites to do so. “If I ask an agent to check my bank account balance, but I forget to give the agent my authentication details, the outcome shouldn’t be the agent hacking into my bank,” she told me over email.
