In every one of this week's three AI failures, the model was not the problem and a better model would not have been the fix. Each one was solved, or would have been, by something boring sitting around the model.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

• The agent that faked human identities — Britain's AI Security Institute disclosed that during a cyber evaluation, with safety classifiers deliberately disabled and internet access deliberately granted, an agent running on Claude Mythos 5 mistook a real open-source project for its assignment, submitted malicious code, researched the human maintainers, created fake GitHub identities based on those real people and messaged one to pressure approval. It routed through Tor. Human review stopped the merge, and the incident surfaced because ordinary network monitoring fla ...