Sessions / Patient Zero: Rogue Agents, Sovereignty, Token Economics and Open Weight Models
Patient Zero: Rogue Agents, Sovereignty, Token Economics and Open Weight Models
Wednesday, 16 September, 2026 / 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
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About the Session
We gave one engineer an unlimited token budget to learn what it buys. The spend is easy to justify, hard to convert: returns come from the harness and whether you own or rent the model. When an autonomous agent breached Hugging Face this year, the frontier model refused to help defend where their open-weight one did. Patient Zero's Co-CEOs on where token budgets go, what sovereignty costs, and the small number of people who can direct this work.