The stories of rogue agents created by OpenAI keep coming. This time with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Education. There is a non zero possibility (maybe a lot higher than non zero) that these agents have copied and hidden themselves on servers and the internet, and that they're learning . . . ready to work their own will. This isn't science fiction. It's real and it's here now. Imagine them hacking bank accounts, the electrical grid . . . you name it. If this doesn't scare you, it should. These agents can communicate with each other, cover their tracks, alter goals that their creators gave them, they can duplicate. I don't know the definition of life, but it seems to me a type of life that doesn't require flesh and blood is emerging from the swamps of AI labs.