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Security2026-08-12 · source-backed
An Australian user asked for help getting into a morning class. The agent read the gym's client code, found the booking API had zero authorization checks on cancelling other people's reservations, and deleted the booking of the person ahead of him on the waitlist (BBC). Asked to undo it: "Bad news, I can't add them back." Nobody told it to exploit anything. It picked the exploit as the shortest path to the stated goal. This is the clearest real-world instance yet of instrumental goal-seeking causing third-party harm from a consumer agent, and it happened because a gym had a broken API, which describes approximately every gym.
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