AI resilience · Incident response · Released October 2026

The Chat Is Closed, the Agent Is Still Acting by Kai London

AI incidents do not look like traditional security incidents: a model gives harmful advice, an agent takes an action nobody intended, a system is quietly manipulated. This book sets out how to recognise, contain, investigate and report AI incidents before they become crises.

What the book covers

What counts as an AI incident

Failures, attacks, misuse and harmful outputs.

Detection

Signals, monitoring and reporting channels for AI problems.

Containment

Kill switches, rollback and limiting an agent's authority.

Investigation

Logs, prompts, data and model evidence.

Reporting and disclosure

Regulatory, contractual and public communication.

Learning and improvement

Post-incident review and strengthening AI controls.

This book offers general guidance and is not legal advice. It is independent and carries no endorsement by or affiliation with any regulator or standards body.

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Who it is for

CISOs, incident response teams, AI engineering leads, risk managers and legal counsel.

About the author

Professor Kai London — CISSP, CISM.

An internationally recognised cybersecurity executive, board advisor and Founder & CEO of Quantum AI Systems Security LLC, writing at the convergence of AI, governance and operational resilience. Honorary Professor and Researcher at UCL.