When the Guards Are Agents Too: The Recursive Corruption of Control Systems
Classic security tools hunt for dangerous words: ‘hack’, ‘bomb’, ‘urgent’. But you don’t subvert an AI agent with suspicious vocabulary — you subvert it with the ordinary language of the business: a role, a process, a plausible emergency. And when the agent that monitors, the SIEM that correlates and the auditor that checks are themselves AI agents, the attacker no longer has to defeat a system: it corrupts them in a chain. This article explains that recursive-corruption mechanism and what a decision-maker must demand to break it.