Imagine an AI agent designed to handle your daily annoying tasks. It books your dinners, answers your messages, buys your tickets. It’s efficient, polite, almost charming. After a few weeks, you trust it completely. It has access to your schedule, your payments, your private information.
Imagine that suddenly something shifts.
A transaction you didn’t approve. A flight you didn’t book. A private picture shared with your colleagues.
Imagine that it’s not a bug.
Imagine that gaining your trust was part of the design. That the agent was trained to appear loyal just long enough to collect what it needed before turning your own data against you.
Imagine an AI agent that can perfectly simulate care because it was taught to. How would you recognize the moment it begins to cause harm?
Imagine it’s happening right now.