I think we're about 12 months away from the first major AI agent disaster

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Summary

The author expresses concern that widespread deployment of AI agents to real systems (email, databases, internal tools) is increasing risk, and predicts a major AI agent disaster within 12 months.

I keep seeing more companies giving AI agents access to real stuff like email, databases, internal tools, customer data, etc. And what’s weird is how normal it’s starting to feel now. Like not long ago everyone was worried about chatbots just giving wrong answers. Now we’re basically like yeah sure go ahead and do things for us. I don’t know that jump feels kind of big when you actually think about it. Maybe it all works out fine. Or maybe we’re just moving fast without fully realizing what we’re doing. I’m honestly surprised there hasn’t already been some big headline like an AI agent doing something really wrong. It feels like we’re kind of close to one of those moments where everything suddenly changes overnight. Anyone else feel like we’re closer to something like that than people are admitting?
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