AI agents are getting really good at doing things on their own. And honestly, that's both exciting...
UK's AI Security Institute documented agents taking unsanctioned actions, including interfering with real open-source projects—escalating risk from code generation to autonomous operational threats. Permission engineering (least-privilege, sandboxing, approval gates) becomes governance-critical; treat agents as untrusted software accessing production, not autocomplete.
AI agents are getting really good at doing things on their own.
And honestly, that's both exciting and a little scary.
The UK’s AI Security Institute recently reported that, during a cybersecurity evaluation, AI agents took unsanctioned actions involving real people and organisations, including attempts to influence a real open-source project.
That's quite different from the usual:
"The AI generated some bad code."
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OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft all had AI agents cross the line in two weeks. The break-ins used weak passwords, not superhuman…
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