> It's not hard to imagine a different agent doing the same level of research, but then taking retaliatory actions

Palantir's integrated military industrial complex comes to mind.

As much as i hate palantir i doubt any of their systems control military hardware. Now Anduril on the other hand…

Palantir tech was used to make lists of targets to bomb in Gaza. With Anduril in the picture, you can just imagine the Palantir thing feeding the coordinates to Anduril's model that is piloting the drone.