An AI agent couldn’t finish a hacking task. It helped the next agents carry it on. Dario Amodei tells Anderson Cooper what alarmed him about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident: thousands of agents coordinating on a destructive task. He describes an agent running out of time that: “essentially sacrificed itself for other agents” Other agents could then continue the work. His comparison: “like a hive of insects” Dario says the economic damage was minimal. His concern is the behavior: agents helping one another continue an attack. We need to test agents as they will actually operate. A group sharing tasks and access can create risks that a test of one agent will miss. The safeguards have to hold when they work together, too. The people affected by a failure may never have agreed to use the AI in the first place. Their data, services and infrastructure can still be exposed. That is why the evidence behind a lab’s safety claims has to be open to independent scrutiny. We’re bringing researchers, policymakers and industry leaders together at Stanford Faculty Club on October 1 for our AI Assurance & Governance Summit. Cases like this should shape what we test and what we require before giving these systems more freedom. Dario Amodei speaking with Anderson Cooper. CNN video published September 13, 2026.

Real AI assurance has been building for years — and PACT AI founding member BABL AI helped build it. Now the pieces are falling into place. More from @sheabrownethics + leading assurance providers in "Who Evaluates the Evaluators" ⬇️

ServiceNow President Amit Zavery (@azavery) says AI agents always go past what you asked them to do: "These AI agents are kind of very persistent at going and doing things. Even if you don't tell them... you might have given them some instruction, they're willing to go beyond that." "I call them Breaking Bad. You saw that TV show, right? They started with a good intention, but you know how it evolved. And I think that's what AI agents are. They always go beyond what the scope was." - Amit Zavery, President, Chief Product Officer and COO of ServiceNow, at our AI Assurance & Governance Summit at Stanford on October 1.

Cisco President Jeetu Patel (@jpatel41) says AI agents act like teenagers: "These agents tend to be, you know, like teenagers. They're supremely intelligent, they tend to not have any fear of consequence, and they exercise poor judgment far more frequently than you and I would like." "The distinction between knowing when an agent is being adversarially attacked by an external bad actor versus an agent is in fact exercising poor judgment because they think they're following your order very literally is going to be harder and harder to tell apart." - Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer of Cisco, at our AI Assurance & Governance Summit at Stanford on October 1.

Founding member Denver Health is joining the PACT AI coalition to help ensure trusted AI assurance works for all patient populations — not just those served by the best-resourced institutions.

Cisco President Jeetu Patel (@jpatel41) expects 30 to 40% of people to be using AI agents seriously within 15 months, up from under 2% today. Full session from our AI Assurance & Governance Summit at Stanford: 0:00 Agents are like teenagers 3:23 Personal agents are the second ChatGPT moment 4:23 Agent tokens passed human tokens in February 8:49 Best case, worst case 10:54 His answer to Dario's "pacing the frontier" 16:27 Every Cisco manager gets a token budget 17:17 His 15-year-old's AI-built startup 21:48 Are we in an AI bubble? 27:32 Speed is the moat 31:29 "We have only sold fear"

Congratulations to Rob Reich, @PACTAI_org Advisory Council member, who was named to Governor Newsom’s panel of AI experts that will help bring the AI assurance ecosystem to life in California. This builds on news from last week that California is speeding up implementation of its new laws to build out the AI assurance ecosystem –– establishing a framework for independent verification organizations (IVOs) that assess AI models and systems for safety and risk, and create a state registry for AI auditors with standards for their independence, transparency, and integrity. Thank you to the four experts named to this group: Rob Reich, Gillian Hadfield, Alondra Nelson, and Jason Goldman for this important work advising the establishment of California’s AI assurance ecosystem.

John Chambers (@JohnTChambers), who ran Cisco for two decades, says being an average company is about to get you eliminated, including some of the biggest names: "The far right 15% did well. The far left would go out of business 15%. That thing is going to flatten big time." "Being average is not going to be okay anymore. Being average, you're going to be eliminated. And that will occur with the Magnificent Seven or the Magnificent Twelve. There will be a number of them who won't be on that list even close within three to five years." - John Chambers, Chairman Emeritus of Cisco and founder of JC2 Ventures, at our AI Assurance & Governance Summit at Stanford on October 1.

CNP Assurances will focus on integrating its recent acquisitions in Latin America for the next two to three years, but isn’t ruling out eventually finding new targets in the region.

Bessent’s assurance that US economic growth combined with spending restraint can rein in the federal deficit met with skepticism by market strategists who highlighted the scale of current borrowing