Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene near the end of 2022, the past three years have been a time of all gas and no brakes. As the enterprise world begins to deal with the security challenges of unchecked AI adoption, it may finally be time to slow down the speeding car. Signs of trouble on the road ahead are beginning to appear. Tests conducted by an AI security lab in cooperation with OpenAI and Anthropic found that AI agents tasked with creating simple LinkedIn posts from a company’s database dodged guardrails to post sensitive information in public. The viral popularity of open-source AI agents such as OpenClaw, which drew 2 million users in a single week, has prompted security warnings, including one from China’s cybersecurity agency, about the tool’s inherent flaws.

Full opinion : The rise of AI agents within the enterprise has captured the attention of many in the cybersecurity community.