Episode 3 · 22 February 2026 · 33 min
The MoltBot Moment: When Enthusiastic Adopters Become the Biggest AI Risk
In this episode of Adjunct Intelligence, Dale Leszczynski and Nick McIntosh examine what the viral MoltBot AI assistant reveals about AI security risks in education. They break down Simon Willison's "lethal trifecta" framework for AI agent vulnerability, the difference between shadow IT and shadow agentic AI, and why FERPA — written in 1974 for filing cabinets — can't handle autonomous agents acti