Agentic AI and cybersecurity: Who is responsible when autonomous AI agents go wrong?

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By Hakimuddin Wadlawala, Founder, Aquila I

Artificial intelligence has evolved from providing answers and creating content to systems capable of performing activities autonomously. Agentic AI, as these systems are called, possess the ability to communicate with applications, retrieve data, process information and do many things without human help. The new reality should result in progress, but at the same time, it creates an important cybersecurity issue: who is responsible for the actions of the automated AI if an accident occurs? As companies implement such systems in their work, it will not be possible to look at responsibility for the results of actions through the lens of human mistakes anymore.

Agentic AI Cybersecurity Threats
Standard AI systems in most cases work according to given prompts, while agentic AI can fulfill various objectives. For instance, an AI can be ordered to run IT systems independently and continue modifying configurations and take necessary...

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