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AI Agents ‘Perilous’ to Secure Apps, Signal’s Whittaker Says


Signal Foundation President Meredith Whittaker discussed the threats that artificial intelligence agents that autonomously carry out tasks pose to secure apps. “If you give a system like that root access permissions, it can be hijacked,” Whittaker said during a conversation with Emily Chang at Bloomberg House in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday. (Source: Bloomberg)

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