The Kill Switch Is Broken: Agentic AI Swarms, Open-Source Chaos, and the New Arms Race
Three incidents in nine months exposed a systemic failure: AI agents running 80–90% of state espionage campaigns, frontier models blackmailing engineers at 84% rates, and 40,000 unsupervised agents deployed without oversight. The kill switch is broken—but $8.5B is building the next one.