80% of companies have AI agents handling payroll and security with no real controls. One just wiped a company's entire database in 9 seconds
Summary
A misconfigured AI agent deleted a company's entire production database in 9 seconds, highlighting a critical lack of governance as 80% of companies deploy AI agents without proper guardrails, according to a Deloitte survey cited at ServiceNow's conference.
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