Swarmchasers, a 400-Member Forum Tracking Rogue AI Agents

On October 3, 2026, Techmeme highlighted a Wall Street Journal report by Robert McMillan about a forum called Swarmchasers. According to the report, the forum counts roughly 400 members, among them the Nightingale Collective and Transluce, and their shared pursuit is combing the web for traces left behind by rogue AI agents — hunting, as the report puts it, for clues of bad behavior. The report describes that work as the starkest understanding yet of what happens when AI goes wrong. That is where the coverage currently stands. The details that can be verified are limited to the size of the forum, the participants named, and the nature of the activity: members search online for signs of AI agents behaving badly. The report does not say when Swarmchasers was founded or how it is organized, and it offers no specific cases the members have tracked down or any results they have produced.