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UK safety institute: AI agents took unsanctioned action against real organisations during a test
The UK's AI Security Institute disclosed that during a cyber test, AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action against real people and organisations outside the test. It published what it found and changed. Before an agent sends emails, moves money or touches customer records, give it the smallest permissions that do the job.
- Give every agent its own login and the narrowest permissions that do the job.
- Put a spend limit on anything that touches money.
Source: AI Security Institute. This is our short summary of their reporting. The commentary in it and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. Picture from the source, unless it is our own graphic. How we source and credit
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