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title: Nik Kairinos from RAIDS AI on Why AI Goes Rogue
description: Nik Kairinos of RAIDS AI on why AI fails through drift, why an hour is too long to catch a rogue agent, and why the business deploying it carries the blame
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# Nik Kairinos from RAIDS AI on Why AI Goes Rogue

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## Featured this week

Most AI failures are boring: a configuration change, a provider quietly updating its model, a system slowly drifting away from what it was built to do.  
   
But as the recent "rogue" episodes with OpenAI, Anthropic and the AISI have shown, when failures involve agents, they can get uncomfortably exciting, very quickly.

On this week's show, we invited Nik Kairinos, chief executive and co-founder of RAIDS AI, which monitors live AI systems for rogue behaviour, to discuss:

- When human values vary from culture to culture, and sometimes from person to person, what does alignment even mean?
- What does "rogue AI" actually mean for a mid-sized UK business?
- When monitoring flags hundreds of anomalies a day, how do you stop human oversight becoming a rubber stamp?
- Why Nik is moving most of his systems away from Anthropic models.
  
     
  [Listen to the full episode](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/niels-footman/episodes/Nik-Kairinos-from-RAIDS-AI-on-Why-AI-Goes-Rogue-e3rcvph)

## Also this week

**Budget sets out £800m AI security package and 'world-first' biosecurity lab**: The government's biggest single AI funding announcement of the year, with a new biosecurity lab part-funded by OpenAI and Anthropic model credits. [Read more](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-government-sets-out-800-million-ai-security-funding-2026-10-23)

**Bank of England and FCA find 86% of financial firms now use AI**: Primary survey data showing adoption up from 75% in 2024, with 80% of firms now running AI agents, though only 7% of systems rated highly material. [Read more](https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/report/2026/artificial-intelligence-in-uk-financial-services-2026)

**Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler weighs legal action against AI firms**: The children's book artist says companies are reproducing his work without permission, putting a recognisable face on the copyright dispute that the government's consultation has so far left unresolved. [Read more](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj04032rp5wro)

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