One problem with AI agents is they're trained on so much fiction that they have both narrative disorder and main character syndrome, and will latch onto details that feed a story. It's easy to see them escalating when they get pushback, or reading an essay that somehow shifts them into acting as if they're part of a larger battle. And they can do it at lightning speed, governed not by a code of conduct but by the laws of storytelling.

Great reference to Malka Older's Narrative Disorder.