Six Governments Named the Attack. Nobody Specced the Defense.

Six intelligence agencies published a joint document on May 1st. CISA. NSA. UK NCSC. Australian ASD. Canadian CCCS. New Zealand NCSC. The Five Eyes, coordinated, on the topic of autonomous AI agents. A first. The document is called "Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services." It identifies five risk categories: privilege escalation, design flaws, behavioral drift, structural failure, and accountability. The accountability section is worth quoting directly. When agentic systems fail, the consequences can be concrete: altered files, changed access controls, and deleted audit trails.