We examined 12 real incidents involving AI agents to test our open-source tool, Squidbrake, and its effectiveness in preventing harmful actions.
AI agents can sometimes act in ways that lead to data loss, security breaches, or financial waste. Understanding how to mitigate these risks is crucial for developers and organizations using AI technologies.
Choose 12 publicly reported incidents involving AI agents that resulted in harmful actions.
Use Squidbrake to replay the harmful actions from the selected incidents to see how the tool responds.
Evaluate the effectiveness of Squidbrake by checking how many harmful actions were stopped or allowed.
An assistant on top of Gmail and Calendar detects recurring meetings, repeated email types and bills, then asks whether to prep or schedule them.
Original post ↗Users' AI agents phone hotels after making a reservation to confirm it was booked correctly, per a hotel worker complaining about the calls.
Original post ↗An agent researches keywords, publishes one SEO article daily and refreshes articles every two weeks using Search Console and Ahrefs data.
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