One man accidentally gained access to thousands of robot vacuums, exposing the AI cyber nightmare risk facing millions of Americans

When software engineer Sammy Azdoufal sat down to steer his new DJI Romo robot vacuum with a PlayStation 5 video game controller, he didn’t expect to accidentally commandeer a global surveillance network. Using an AI coding assistant to reverse-engineer how the vacuum communicated with DJI’s remote servers, Azdoufal extracted a security token meant to prove he owned his specific device. Instead, as reported by Popular Science, the backend servers treated him as the owner of nearly 7,000 robot vacuums operating across 24 countries.