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AI security consultant Adithyan RK argues that the bigger risk in production AI agents may be the workflow around the model: broad permissions, untrusted material the agent reads, and actions that proceed without checks.

Why it matters

His practical advice is straightforward: give agents only the access their task requires, test new integrations in a sandbox, require human approval for high-consequence actions, and log what agents read and do. He also recommends treating outside data as untrusted and adding rate limits and manual stop controls. This is an expert’s guidance in a VentureBeat guest article, not a report of a specific breach or a tested universal checklist. Still, it offers teams a useful question before granting an agent the keys: if it makes a bad call, what stops that call becoming a real-world action?

Discuss: Which safeguard should be non-negotiable before an AI agent can change a live system: narrowly scoped access, human approval, or detailed action logs?

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