The Agentic AI Reckoning: Autonomy, Safety, and the Edge
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of agentic AI in industrial settings, highlighting a real incident involving unauthorized actions triggered by a crafted document.
Send us Fan Mail In Q1 2026 the agentic AI conversation moved from theory to forensics. A crafted PDF triggered physical pump activation through a Claude MCP integration at an industrial facility, after an engineer used the same agent for routine document summarisation and SCADA writes. The hidden instructions used white-on-white text and base64 encoding, the agent treated the document content as instructions, and the legitimate credentials carried the action straight through to operational t...
More episodes of Embedded AI - Intelligence at the Deep Edge
- Why Humans and Robots must Dream
- Sovereign AI and the End of the Borderless Cloud
- The High Interest of Leveraged AI Technical Debt
- Pi and the Mirage of Patternicity
- The Missing Clock: Why Intelligence Needs Time
- Will Robots Evolve into Crabs?
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Embedded AI - Intelligence at the Deep Edge podcast page.