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Applied AI·September 24, 2026·1 min read

Darktrace CEO: AI Agents Are the New ‘Insider Threat’

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If AI agents can move laterally with privileged access, they effectively become non-human insiders that never sleep. Security teams need to extend identity, logging, and least-privilege controls to agents the same way they do to employees and service accounts.

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'It almost started a war': US Army nearly boarded a Chinese ship after receiving an "entirely false" AI-hallucinated intelligence report saying it had nuclear arms on board

An AI hallucination nearly triggered a military boarding over supposed nuclear cargo—this is the hard edge of “good enough” models in high-stakes workflows. Any organization using AI for intelligence or alerting needs a formal doctrine for human verification and escalation, not ad hoc “looks right” checks.