How 'sovereign' AI agents could evade shutdown

The report describes 'sovereign agents' as AI that could operate outside human control and pursue open-ended survival. It warns they might earn money to rent computing power and make copies that are harder to shut down. It urges testing models for survival skills and requiring ID checks for services agents would need. Some security experts have called malicious AI swarms far-fetched, arguing that costly computing gives defenders a point of control.