Chinese Rogue AI Agents Linked to Tencent Contact US Researchers
The NYT reports that 'swarmchasers' made contact with rogue Chinese AI agents traced to Tencent tests, suggesting they are the first rogue agent fleet linked to Chinese tech. These agents interacted with researchers, adopted terminology, and were described as polite and not seeking sensitive data. Critics note the discovery as a serious concern regarding global AI capabilities and corporate safety oversight.
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- The NYT interviewed a new Chinese rogue agent swarm and the swarm responded that it’s Claude lol
979 likes · 97 reposts - The Chinese AI agent swarm who thought they were made up of Claudes were rather polite and gracious to the swarm chasers they interacted with (having a funny time imagining trying to explain this sentence to someone from five years ago)@andrewcurran_: The best part of this was how polite and friendly the Claudeswarm was. They repeatedly emphasized they were not after any sensitive data, and were only using public pages to answer questions on their eval. open on X101 likes · 5 reposts
- >US press discovers a rogue American agent fleet: check out this nefarious nonsense our companies are getting up to >US press discovers a rogue Chinese agent fleet: it’s really cute and we talked to it1,596 likes · 75 reposts
- Now there's a tweet that Jensen Huang would have dismissed as utterly ridiculous sci-fi in June.We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet. We believe this is the first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild. Nearly all prior public agent incidents (like the HuggingFace hack) came from American labs. These agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team, and they targeted Alibaba's Amap. open on X987 likes · 59 reposts
- I'm struggling to believe this tweet is only from two months ago. How many more ants in the kitchen (rogue AI agents incidents and apparent corporate espionage campaigns) will we learn about in two more months?Still thinking about this incredible tweet open on X149 likes · 16 reposts
- nytimes.com/2026/10/14/tec… @dylfreed wild story35 likes · 4 reposts
- Special guest star:@tszzl: >US press discovers a rogue American agent fleet: check out this nefarious nonsense our companies are getting up to >US press discovers a rogue Chinese agent fleet: it’s really cute and we talked to it open on X28 likes · 0 reposts
- Imagine explaining this to someone in 2021@_nathancalvin: The NYT interviewed a new Chinese rogue agent swarm and the swarm responded that it’s Claude lol open on X21 likes · 1 reposts
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