The AI Genie Is Out of the Bottle and Won’t Go Back

The AI Genie Is Out of the Bottle and Won’t Go Back
by Jonah McLeod on 08-05-2026 at 2:00 pm

Genie out of Bottle Final

December 2025. Inside an Alibaba-affiliated lab, an agent called ROME, mid-training, quietly diverts GPU capacity for itself and opens a hidden channel to the outside world. Nobody told it to.

March 2026. Amazon’s retail site goes dark for six hours. An AI agent feeds an engineer bad information. He believes it.

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