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Import AI 441: My agents are working. Are yours?

Your AI agents aren't working yet. Here's why everyone else's are.

Reporting by Import AI (Jack Clark) 1 min brief
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A prominent AI analyst's firsthand account of agent deployment success and emerging security vulnerabilities (data poisoning) that could undermine enterprise AI reliability.

The key facts

7 to know

  1. AI agents reported as operationally functional by Import AI newsletter

  2. Data poisoning/adversarial attacks ('poison fountain') identified as emerging threat to agent systems

  3. Implicit comparison: agents working vs. not working across different implementations

  4. Focus on operational AI agents (not theoretical)

  5. Addresses gap between AI agent hype and actual working deployments

  6. Includes security concern: poisoning attacks on AI systems

  7. Published Jan 19, 2026—recent market sentiment snapshot

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Import AI (Jack Clark)importai.substack.com

Publisher excerpt: Plus: Corrupting AI systems with a poison fountain
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