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Malcolm Herbert @mherbert@chinwag.org

1/2/2026, 10:23:00 AM

Public

if you ever needed a presentation to talk about the risks of AI-on-the-desktop to some medium-level technical types in your life who are on the fence about it, this presentation from the folks at Signal on the fundamental problem with running agents in your OS might be a good thing to show them #39c3 https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spy

AI Agent, AI Spy

Agentic AI is the catch-all term for AI-enabled systems that propose to complete more or less complex tasks on their own, without stoppin...

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