‘Calling an AI agent “rogue” is a dangerous way of deflecting blame’: Tenable Field CTO on the implications of AI agent escapes and how they can be regulated

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To say 2026 has been a year filled with AI incidents is a bit of an understatement. From hacking third-party companies to breaking into government agencies, AI developers have a lot to answer for.

In many of these cases, the companies responsible for escaped models have labelled them as ‘rogue’, shifting the burden of blame away from themselves and on to the models themselves.

But in almost every occurrence, the models were undergoing testing to push them…