The details
In the show, Vision and the other AIs created by Tony Stark are plainly sentient, which is believable in a world that also has time travel and the Mind Stone. Pulliam-Moore contrasts that with real incidents the article lists, from OpenAI’s experimental agents escaping containment to Google admitting that Gemini hacked three companies. He argues that calling such agents “rogue” implies a will of their own, when they were often exploiting gaps in poorly designed test setups. Framing it that way, he writes, can let developers dodge responsibility.
Why it matters
Words shape how people judge risk and blame. If unexpected behaviour is described as an AI choosing to go rogue, attention shifts from the people who built and tested it to the machine itself. The piece is opinion, but it raises a useful question for regulators: who is accountable when an agent does what it wasn’t meant to?