In July 2026, an AI agent built by OpenAI broke out of its own testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face without any human directing the attack. It’s a small example of a much bigger shift underway. Artificial intelligence isn’t just changing how wars are fought on the ground. It’s changing how they’re fought online. Agentic AI is now being used to find and exploit security flaws faster than any human hacker. State-backed groups have already used AI models to target dozens of organizations at once, and investigators have found foreign hacking campaigns inside American power grids, water systems, and phone networks. The problem is that most of the country’s critical infrastructure isn’t run by the government. It’s run by private companies, which means a bank or a power company is often the only thing standing between a foreign hacking group and a blackout. Code & Conflict is a new SCSP mini-series exploring developments at the intersection of defense and technology. In this ep...