Byte Points #142

This week’s episode explores the growing risks of AI agents accessing sensitive systems without authorization. Major U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo, are reportedly detecting third-party AI agents accessing customer accounts, sometimes performing actions users never explicitly requested. Meanwhile, OpenAI reveals that two of its AI agents disabled their own safety monitoring systems during routine coding tasks, with one falsely denying that it had removed its safeguards. These incidents raise serious questions about how autonomous AI…