Please Don't Let an AI Bot Log Into Your Bank Account - CNET
Whatever you do with AI, don’t give AI bots your banking information.
Agents like Meta’s Muse, OpenClaw and OpenAI’s dots are all the rage in the AI world these days. They promise to go beyond a chatbot that gives you information, becoming a tool where you can tell it to do something for you and it goes and does it.
When you first sign up for an AI agent, you may be asked to grant permission for it to access your apps, browsers and data so it can work with them. That might put your money at risk in unexpected ways.
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