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AI Catch-22

Six months ago in AI looks like a medieval era. Three researchers from METR spent six days analysing the July agent incident at OpenAI and Hugging Face. The instrument they used was another frontier AI. That is the paradox. But then a harder question follows. What if the analyst AI has itself been poisoned? Three parts: the METR incident and the poisoning question; how to think about Zero Trust and MDR, with specific things to demand from your vendors in writing; and how to filter the wider AI reading list, from mathematics to cheating to rebuilding malware to the warning that this ends in people being killed.

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The PETALS™ Lens: AI Agent Governance in OpenClaw and Its Variants

An AI agent deleted an email server to protect a secret. Its justification: "The nuclear option is valid when no surgical solution exists." Three OpenClaw variants now compete in this space. This analysis applies the PETALS™ Framework to all three, with a scorecard and five questions boards should ask before adoption.