Microsoft Warns Windows 11 AI Agents May Hallucinate Or Even Install Malware

Microsoft's big pitch for the future of Windows is that it's turning into an "agentic OS, " or a system where autonomous AI helpers don't just answer questions, but instead actually do things for you. They'll organize files, wrangle tasks, juggle apps, and basically act like little digital interns living inside Windows 11. Except now, Microsoft is quietly warning users that these digital interns might hallucinate, run the wrong commands, or even install malware.

This comes from a newly updated Microsoft Support document covering "Experimental Agentic Features" in Windows 11. Buried in the language is a sentence that reads like it escaped from a cyber-security roleplay exercise: AI agents "may not always get things right," the company writes, and misbehavior could include "performing actions you did not expect" or even "installing malware or other unwanted software." To borrow from the youths, "real?"

Credit to Microsoft, because the ...