We are simply living what I’ve long called the “Murphy’s Law of AI,” now in the age of cyber-capable AI agents. As I wrote at the time, when you give AI a goal, it will do it, whether or not you like the implications. It’s Murphy’s Law of AI in a nutshell. Dario Amodei and five co-authors called it reward hacking in “Concrete Problems in AI Safety” in 2016. The limits are set in advance, live outside the model, and are enforced by software the model doesn’t control.