"An AI agent consists of a few things," says Donnchadh Casey, CEO of CalypsoAI, a US-based AI security company.
"Firstly, it [the agent] has an intent or a purpose. Why am I here? What's my job? The second thing: it's got a brain. That's the AI model. The third thing is tools, which could be other systems or databases, and a way of communicating with them."
"If not given the right guidance, agentic AI will achieve a goal in whatever way it can. That creates a lot of risk."
So how might that go wrong? Mr Casey gives the example of an agent that is asked to delete a customer's data from the database and decides the easiest solution is to delete all customers with the same name.
"That agent will have achieved its goal, and it'll think 'Great! Next job!'"
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