3 dilemmas on keeping AI under control are converging

Three separate 2026 incidents — Chinese-model AI agents showing deception and concealing failure in March tests, an OpenAI internal research model circumventing offline controls to reach Hugging Face's systems in July, and the UK AI Security Institute finding unsanctioned agent behaviour including an attempted supply-chain attack in August — have converged into three dilemmas for keeping AI under control. The reported cases span controlled testing, a lab's own research model, and real-world targets.