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UK's cyber agency just told every company running AI agents to build a kill switch, and admitted model safety training can be bypassed

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The NCSC (UK's National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ) published its first real guidance on agentic AI security on August 20. It reads like an engineering checklist rather than a policy document: size your containment to how much autonomy you grant the agent, pick one of three oversight model…

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  1. 2026-08-25 13:19 · r/artificial
    UK's cyber agency just told every company running AI agents to build a kill switch, and admitted model safety training can be bypassed

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