Meta's former security chief says handing an AI agent your financial logins is "totally insane"

Business Insider reports that Alex Stamos, Meta's former security chief and now chief security officer at the AI coding startup Cognition, called it "totally insane" that people give AI agent apps access to highly sensitive personal data. On the Big Technology Podcast he said users are handing agents such as Meta's Muse and Spear Street Technology's Instinct their entire 1Password vaults and asking them to handle their finances or file their taxes. Banks, he said, now see interactions that are logged in correctly, so not stolen credentials, but are clearly bots.

• Do not give any AI agent your password manager, bank login or tax account. If an agent needs a service, use a separate account or a limited, read-only access where the service offers one.
• If you already shared a login with an agent, change that password, turn on two-step sign-in, and check the agent's activity log for anything you did not ask for.

Source: Business Insider. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: Meta, from its own announcement. How we source and credit