Eight mussels guard a city’s water.
At the waterworks in Warsaw and Poznań, river water passes a tank of freshwater mussels before it reaches anyone’s tap. Each mussel has a small sensor glued to its shell. When something toxic arrives, they clamp shut within seconds. If four of the eight close at once, the plant shuts off the supply.
AI agents drink from open water too. They read tweets, inboxes, web pages and token metadata, and they act on what they read. In May 2026 a trading bot lost about $175,000 to an instruction hidden in Morse code inside a tweet.