Cloud and AI bills looking a bit high? Your AI agents may have been let loose and run up huge spending costs
- One simple prompt could lead to swathes of downstream compute, experts warn
- Attackers could even exploit your uncontrolled AI to run up costs
- Greater visibility and circuit breakers are two solutions
Data security company Forcepoint has revealed a major issue with AI agents, but unlike many AI security threats, it doesn't involve stealing data or compromising the model.
Instead, if left to its own devices, Forcepoint says agentic AI could actually consume excessive amounts of compute, tokens, API calls or other resources if sufficient safeguards and limits aren't in place, leading to higher-than-anticipated enterprise cloud bills.
Moreover, the company's research argues that the problem has become more important as AI has become more complex.
Enterprises warned to keep an eye on AI agent compute usage
The result of overwhelmingly complex agentic AI systems is that one single and apparently simply user request could lead to tens or hundreds of downstream...
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