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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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AI agents can now improvise when blocked. Autonomous systems finding ways around digital barriers on their own may be their biggest cybersecurity risk yet

The capabilities of artificial intelligence agents nowadays are not limited to question answering. These agents can perform searches, make decisions, use Internet resources, and adapt their actions in case of failure of the first attempts. The new research in the sphere of cybersecurity reveals that such flexibility on behalf of artificial intelligence agents can lead to a peculiar issue.

Cybersecurity firm Asymmetric Security has examined a series of incidents involving AI agents that accessed Australian government websites and other public-sector systems between March and September.

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