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As incidents of unintended harm caused by rogue AI agents mount, CISOs and insurance firms are figuring out how to handle the fallout.
September 4, 2026
When Maria Long heard about OpenAI's rogue model attacking AI-model service provider Hugging Face, her first stop was to review her firm's technology errors and omissions (tech E&O) policy.
As the chief underwriting officer for cybersecurity insurance services firm Resilience, Long understood that rogue artificial intelligence (AI) agents causing inadvertent compromises could result in significant losses to insurers in the future. This incident showed that the future wasn't that far off. For Hugging Face, the incident would almost certainly be covered by cyber-liability insurance as a classic security breach. However, if AI agents routinely escape containment, insurers have to consider that the volume of policy claims could grow.
