A lot of the material that I trawl at Arxiv and other sources every day is rather dry, even for a nerd’s sensibilities; therefore I’m always looking for a publication that engages me emotionally, as a user, proponent, or victim of AI. Today that moment of hackle-activation was supplied by a new academic collaboration from the US, examining the extent to which agentic frontier AI models burn their bridges before taking damaging action – and faster than you can type ‘STOP!’ (hint: keep it handy…