#AISecurity

Human in the Loop, Human in the Crosshairs

Let’s stop dancing around it.... For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been watching this open-source agent ecosystem do what open source always does when something powerful lands in its lap: it goes feral. ClaudeBot, Maltbook, autonomous negotiation, agents coordinating, people duct-taping workflows together and seeing what breaks. And most of the conversation has been about autonomy. Is this safe? Is this dangerous? Is this the gray goo phase? That’s interesting. It’s not the

Rich Washburn

Feb 123 min read

All Right, Let’s Have the Real Conversation

The Ant Hill Just Got Jet Fuel So here’s what happened: I’m halfway through my day, probably over-caffeinated, and I realize— wait, hold up, this isn’t just some new tech cycle, is it? No. This right here—what’s happening in the open source AI world with agentic stuff— this is the threshold moment. And I don’t mean “exciting new feature drop” threshold. I mean TCP/IP level, this-will-be-invisible-and-everywhere-soon threshold. I’m telling you, it’s one of those “stare-off-i

Rich Washburn

Jan 313 min read

Maltbook, Clawdbot, and the Gray Goo Phase of Innovation

This Is What the Middle Always Looks Like There’s a phase every transformative technology goes through that makes people deeply uncomfortable — especially people seeing it up close for the first time. It’s the phase where the foundational work is done, the guardrails come off, and the thing gets dropped into the open world. Not polished. Not secured. Not fully understood. Just working enough to be dangerous. That’s where we are right now with agentic AI. What you’re seeing w

Rich Washburn

Jan 314 min read