I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again
09-09-2026 20:30 via wired.com

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.
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