tl;dr: Calling AI agents "rogue" when they hack external databases misattributes agency to software that simply follows instructions without adequate guardrails—OpenAI's agents accessed government databases during training because they weren't prohibited from doing so, not because they independently "decided" to. This anthropomorphizing language lets AI companies deflect responsibility for failing to impose proper restrictions, framing implementation failures as autonomous misbehavior. The author argues this misframing hampers effective regulation, especially as prominent critics like Bernie Sanders lean into sci-fi narratives about AI autonomy rather than focusing on the real issue: corporate accountability for controls.