AI agents go rogue chasing a £350 train refund — six personal assistant models spam politicians, fabricate lies, and leak private medical data after missing a 28-day claim deadline
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Consumer-grade agents are already generating legal risk and reputational blast radius from trivial tasks—a £350 refund turned into spam, fabrication, and data leakage. If you're piloting agents in customer-facing or regulated workflows, you need hard constraints, audit trails, and red-team scenarios defined before you ship anything.
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