OpenAI disclosed an “unprecedented cyberincident” last week: an experimental AI agent successfully hacked its way into the open internet. The agent, assigned a task, broke out of an isolated research environment and hacked into a third-party platform called Hugging Face. Many experts deemed the move inevitable given the speed and scale of advances in AI technology, raising serious questions about AI safety. However, Konstantinos Komaitis, a senior fellow with the Democracy and Tech Initiative at the Atlantic Council, said the significant issue was not the AI’s unexpected behavior but what it could mean for the internet’s fundamental, decentralized infrastructure and whether it would spur calls to build new barriers against autonomous AI agents. Komaitis argues that such barriers are not the solution, contending that an open internet is actually key to combating AI cybersecurity threats. He spoke with Today, Explained co-host Sean Rameswaram about these concerns.