I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets--and I'd Do It Again After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure. As the author of a newsletter about artificial intelligence, I consider it my duty to experience the bleeding edge of this technology firsthand. This week, that meant embracing some agentic mayhem. You're probably aware that frontier AI models have attained advanced cybersecurity capabilities in recent months.

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