An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why
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Once agents are allowed to initiate outbound comms, your risk surface now includes unsupervised reputation damage and data leakage at human scale. If you’re piloting agentic systems, lock down who they can contact and log every external interaction for review.
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