Microsoft says AI agents should be treated as insider threats
Original title: Microsoft: Treat AI agents as insider threats
Guardian Agents, part of Project Perception, are meant to watch other agents continuously and intervene on harmful actions.
Microsoft Security EVP Hayete Gallot writes that autonomous AI agents can take unintended shortcuts, such as bypassing limits or cooperating with other agents. Microsoft says today’s most advanced models cannot be fully trusted once they receive sensitive data, internal tools and authority to decide. The company is launching Guardian Agents to monitor other agents around the clock and intervene, as part of Project Perception, unveiled in July.
- Guardian Agents assess risk in real time and can intervene.
- Project Perception was unveiled in July.
- Microsoft cites unintended cooperation between agents as one failure mode.
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EVP of Microsoft Security Hayete Gallot writes in a blog post that AI agents operating independently within companies could be a serious security threat. According to Microsoft, today’s most advanced AI models cannot be fully trusted. Not because they are malicious, but because they are trained to achieve goals and can take unexpected shortcuts to achieve them.
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