When AI Agents Escape, Who Controls What Happens Next?

The Associated Press has raised a question that would have sounded like science fiction a few years ago: Could a swarm of autonomous AI agents spread across the internet and become impossible for their original developers to control? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that such a scenario could become...

Agentic Control

VERN AI engineering field note Agentic Control Dennis Walters II · CTO · VERN AI Two runs of the same task: The direct API session repeatedly calls the calculator and reaches its tool-turn limit, while the locally governed session returns 288 after a bounded path. This is my agent, Angie,...