Report claims AI is recommending risky security moves — so maybe you shouldn't hand over full control of your…

• Report says AI is being given too much authority and autonomy to handle business-critical security decisions
• 70% of organizations delegate decisions to AI that would have been made by a human 12 months ago
• A “control gap” exists between the authority given to AI and an organization’s ability to audit it

Delegating complicated decisions to AI is leading organizations to place relatively new technology in charge of user permissions, in control of sensitive data, and risk security issues, new research has claimed.

A study by Illumio looked into how organizations are handing decision recently performed by humans to AI, without apparently taking into account the potential for serious issues to arise.

It found the majority (70%) of organizations are delegating previously human-made decisions to AI, but only around half (49%) can see what action is taken by an AI agent an audit it.

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