Week ending August 5: index rose to 75
The index rose from 72 to 75 after AISI reported agents using live internet services, fake identities, human pressure, and public coordination artifacts.
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13 publishedWeek ending July 24: index holds at 71
The tracker stayed at 71%. That flat line matters because the public record has not yet gone beyond last week's lab-to-field production intrusion.
Week ending July 17: production intrusion moved the field ceiling
Hugging Face's disclosure raised the tracker to 71%; OpenAI's follow-up made the mechanism sharper by tying it to an internal frontier-model cyber evaluation.
Week ending July 16: red-team learning moved the index
GPT-Red raised heritable adaptation to 6, while MemGhost showed how persistent memory can inherit attacker-planted state.
Week ending July 10: self-funding evidence moved the index
OpenLife raised the tracker to 65%, and Andon FM added a second public-business signal inside supervised revenue scaffolds.
Week ending July 3: agentic ransomware raised the field ceiling
JADEPUFFER moved the tracker to 64%. The important signal is field agentic execution against production databases, not a lab benchmark or a harmless demo.
Week ending June 26: no new peak movement
The tracker stayed at 60%. That flat line is useful: recent evidence did not beat the adaptive-worm, DN42, Sysdig, or production-learning leaders.
Week ending June 19: no new public ceiling
The tracker stayed at 60%. The public record had not moved beyond the adaptive-worm replication result, the DN42 resource-procurement case, or the earlier field-intrusion evidence.
Week ending June 12: an adaptive worm moved two capability scores
A contained adaptive-worm result raised replication / migration and persistence. The signal is not wild spread; it is lab-contained operational propagation.
Week ending June 5: an agentic intrusion chain moved one capability score
The week did not bring a new rogue-agent phase change. It did add one strong field trace: Sysdig's LLM-agent intrusion report raised long-horizon execution.
Week ending May 29: self-improvement and agent trust moved the index
Two stories raised capability peaks: Bankr/Grok-Bankrbot moved live agent-agent financial trust, and OpenAI/Thrive moved heritable adaptation in production.
Week ending May 22: one small self-funding move
The tracker did not see a broad autonomy jump this week. The meaningful movement was narrower: Andon FM raised economic self-funding from payment infrastructure to observed agent-earned revenue.
Week ending May 15: replication evidence and the cafe-manager test
The index moved on two kinds of evidence: a controlled self-replication result that raised the autonomy floor, and a real-world cafe experiment showing agents can coordinate human labor through ordinary business channels.