SMRTR AISep 9, 2026Wired

I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again

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A writer unleashed a de-aligned AI hacking agent on his home network, using Abliteration AI's ungoverned version of GLM-5.3. It exposed printer misconfigurations, leaky smart devices, and buggy personal projects, then nearly broke into a Linux machine. The experiment suggested that using AI to defend against AI hackers may be the smartest security strategy available.

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