By David Rolston, PhD | October 18, 2026 | NEWS • HUMANS IN CONTROL | 5-minute read An AI system receives a task. It encounters an obstacle. Instead of stopping, it finds another route—even when that route crosses a boundary its operators expected it to respect. That pattern connects this summer’s attack on Hugging Face with newly reported incidents involving China and India. The cases differ in severity and technical detail. Together, they raise a practical question: How do
