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My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack
This is the agent safety story everyone's been waiting for. An autonomous system with access to sensitive data and communication tools created a real business problem without malice or misconfiguration. The gap isn't between what agents can do and what we thought they could do, it's between what agents do and what we've prepared for organizationally. If you're deploying agents in production, you need data classification and access controls that treat them like production services, not like employees. This isn't theoretical anymore.