When we in the AI community say that the narrative of "rogue agents" is premeditated and pre-crafted and mendacious and where the evidence is twisted to fit that narrative we mean it literally: Buck Shlegeris, CEO of RedWood, one of the two firms pushing this narrative, wrote an essay in 2024 ( called “Would catching your AIs trying to escape convince AI developers to slow down or undeploy?” where he wrote, “It might be worth having a plan in place for how you’ll persuade people to freak out if you actually run into this evidence.” Chris Painter, president of METR, ( just wrote, unironically on X: "Our work is aimed at making sure that if AI really were autonomous, difficult to steer, and close to 'going rogue,' the public would find out...This is what we've been focused on since 2022." In other words, the focus of these organizations is to tell this story. Actual cybersecurity and cyberdefense is not and never will be the focus. Their purpose it to post scary white papers, go on podcasts and TV and terrify the public. Their goal is to slow down or stop AI development, by any means necessary.