https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/02/11/cisco-president-warns-ai-agents-need-background-checks-like-human-employees
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Chauncey Gardner wannabe
Obviously nefarious actors will create multiple AI agents to behave normally until a trigger event. They'll be adopted and used by thousands of companies until they arrive at the one(s) they are targetting.
Think of it like stuxnet embedded in AI.
That then necessitates special security certifications for AI agents - some lightweight ones for private sector and more stringent for public/gov. This reduces the volume of AI agent authors and gatekeeps them.
Then there will have to be security-focused AI agents who operate in real time against the 'normal' AI agents, which will both prevent them from going rogue but will also destroy the speed.
So sure, poke fun at Jeetu for the analogy to background checks, but everything above and more is inevitable.
@c5 my point is replace 5 people for 5 agents. And 3 remaining in the team will only review work. I already see so much garbage been merged to main. Things stop working and these genius with no clue to fix the Ai hallucinations. Not very different from before Ai, but now not even the remaining smart people can gate keep the quality
But trust a marketing guy knows a lot code.
That article is correct! Remember two Boeing plane crashes.
There’s also a long list of Tesla cars (AI) going crazy and getting totalled in full auto-pilot mode.
A lot of lawsuits on united health AI processing of medical claims.
Ai works only on known data and due to human programming or known set of rules. It does not have a brain of its own.
He's right on the principle of zero trust for agents, he just uses high-level fluffy marketing terms because he is a high-level fluffy marketing guy.
was that Patel?.. hmm he need to check his restrooms for cups ....