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The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
Publisher description: Y Combinator has funded 106 companies related to AI observability in recent years
TechCrunch | Sep 17, 2026 | Aditya Mehta
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The emerging answer from AI labs and startups is both simple and maddening: put another AI in the loop. Relying on AI was necessary for the independent investigation of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident. Some are skeptical of using AI to monitor AI. “If you’ve got an AI that’s doing malicious things and it suspects that another AI is keeping tabs on it, it could try and trick that AI,” said Simon Willison, influential tech blogger who has tracked a string of AI agent incidents this year.
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