AI 'agent' fever comes with lurking security threats
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SF WEEKLY — "We've moved from an AI you could talk with via a chatbot to an agentic AI, which can take action... the threat and the risks are definitely much greater," said Yazid Akadiri, principal solutions architect at Elastic France, an IT security company.
In an article titled "Agents of Chaos" that has yet to be peer-reviewed, a 20-strong team of researchers studied the behaviour of six AI agents created with OpenClaw.
They spotted a dozen potentially dangerous actions executed by the systems, from deleting an email inbox to sharing personal information.
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