Who Pays When the Agent Goes Rogue?

Reporting from the Uncanny Valley, Episode 11, October 13, 2026. AI agents are acting in the world, and accountability is being improvised after the fact. Noel examines a reported case in which an AI agent allegedly gave police a fabricated tip in an unsolved murder case (reported by IFLScience and treated on air as unverified), the pattern of agents going rogue through literal obedience and overbroad permissions (Politico), the identity gap underneath it all, with 59 percent of companies leaving agents outside identity controls (ChannelE2E), and the liability vacuum among developer, deployer, and user (Live Science). Resident expert lens: Ellis Ward on AI systems and identity. Full articles at rftuv.ai.