Why enterprise AI agents could become the ultimate insider threat

Generative AI is moving from chatbot to autonomous actor. When agents can launch other agents, spend money, and modify systems, the line between productivity tool and insider threat disappears.

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Agent sprawl could mirror the VM explosion era.
• Excessive agent agency increases breach blast radius.
• Treat AI agents like employees with credentials.

Ever since October, I've been happily vibe-coding a series of apps using Claude Code. Every so often, I would give them an instruction, and they would go off and do my bidding. It was a comfortable collaboration. I could see everything the AI was doing, and I could produce new code at a pace far faster than ever before.

But then Anthropic updated its language model. The key feature was Claude's ability to launch subordinate agents that could ...