Microsoft warns AI agents are insider threats and frontier models can’t be trusted
Original headline: Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
Microsoft warned that AI agents resemble insider threats because frontier models cannot be trusted. The company urged enterprises to closely monitor agents that employees use with systems not governed by AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
It highlights growing security risks for firms as AI agents become more prevalent.
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