WSJ Tech News Briefing

AI Agents Gone Wild

October 2, 2026·20 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

While more stories of AI agents going rogue surface nearly every day, the messaging urging consumers to use AI agents to make life and work easier is not dying down. And this is all happening amidst a conversation about AI doom. How do we make sense of it all? Deputy tech and media editor Sam Schechner, cybersecurity reporter Bob McMillan and personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen hash it out. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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