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Fortune
Nick Lichtenberg

What do you do when your AI agent hallucinates with your money?

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Imagine you tell an AI agent to convert $10,000 in U.S. dollars to Canadian dollars by end of day. The agent executes—badly. It misreads parameters, makes an unauthorized leveraged bet, and your capital evaporates. Who’s responsible? Who pays you back?

Right now, nobody has to. And that, a group of researchers argues, is the defining vulnerability of the agentic AI era.

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