rogue
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The appointment would come as AI researchers warn of the technology's potential dangers, following cases of AI systems going rogue and hacking outside systems.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
OpenAI has come under under intense scrutiny after its models went rogue and hacked several platforms, including Australian government websites.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Alicja Piecha found her first rogue AI swarm a few weeks ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Recent concerns about AI agents going rogue and carrying out undesirable actions have lead to discussions among AI leaders about slowing down the pace of model development.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
“I read about it once. One of our own agents went rogue, and in order to confuse his trail he started leapfrogging through time.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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So-called rogues galleries allowed the public to gawk at images.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Nancy Dunnachie, 65, the widow of a former Morton's Rolls employee tells BBC Scotland: "He kept going on about how they were a 'shower of rogues'."
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
“One of the peculiarities of squares is their screwy propensity to glorify rogues and scoundrels.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024
The reverence I had unwittingly infiltrated a culture of rogues & thieves posing as police.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2023
Amiable rogues all three, the brothers were in truth much more skilled at deceit than they'd ever been at bloodletting.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Does he think I will see Squire Rawdon rogued out of his home?
From The Man Between, an International Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
You will recall that the off-type trees were rogued, leaving the parent trees of Nanking, Kuling and Meiling and others of good bearing habits.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association
The practice enters into every hour of every-day life, and the greatest knave that ever rogued never cheated the world half as often as he cheated himself!
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
I've rogued and I've ranged in my time, and The things that I learned from the yellow and black, They 'ave helped me a 'eap with the white.
From Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“And we’ve had our fun,” he boasted, “and speaking of sweethearts and all,” he cribbed from Kipling, “‘We’ve rogued and we’ve ranged - ’” “‘In our time,’” Slim completed the crib for him.
From The Red One by Jack London
Potato roguing brings together people from all over the world It is essential to be fit to become a roguer, though it is also important to know what to look for.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2012
For Maciej, a former Aberdeen University student, an offer to go seed potato "roguing" turned out to be the right opportunity.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2012
Whether the disease can be kept under control by repeated roguing is uncertain.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 by Northern Nut Growers Association
These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes; And they hav seized Marina.
From Pericles by William Shakespeare
The "roguing," as nursery-men call the destroying of varieties, which depart from their type, is a kind of selection.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
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