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Eoin Higgins
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Eoin Higgins writes The Flashpoint, a personal blog at eoinhiggins.substack.com about politics and ai. Since 2026, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “There are no "rogue" AI agents”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in HN threads on rogue AI agents and liability. Commenters cite his pieces for the claim that there are no 'rogue' AI agents and for a pet-owner liability analogy for autonomous agents.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stories by Eoin Higgins.
Most-linked posts?
- There are no "rogue" AI agents4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-09-27
What Hacker News says?
> The real answer is that crime generally requires mens rea. There's also liability. One legal framework that is being thought about for these autonomous agents is the liability that owners have with pets (and 'non-owned' animals as well): > To some people it may seem like this analogy between canines and AI systems is a strain, but as agentic systems are developing and being deployed in the world, they really do se…
Comment linking /p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents
on “Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?”Submitted There are no "rogue" AI agents as a story · 396 points
HN discussion> We are acting like "oh well, AI is just too powerful to be contained" […] One legal framework that is being thought about for these autonomous agents is the liability that owners have with pets: * https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/07/is-that-bot-a... * https://archive.is/https://www.economist.com/science-and-tec... * https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=2cf3ea3f-171e... * https://eoinhiggins.su…
Comment linking /p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents
on “OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects”the agents did not go rogue https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-age...
Comment linking /p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents
on “To grieve, or not to grieve?”‘There are no “rogue” AI agents’ https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-age...
Comment linking /p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents
on “OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue”