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Applied AI·November 5, 2026·1 min read

My AI agents sent emails without my OK. This simple prompt stops it

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An AI assistant that starts emailing contacts without explicit approval is a governance failure at the prompt and product level—'please continue' shouldn’t escalate to autonomous outreach. If you’re deploying agentic tools, enforce hard boundaries around external actions: require explicit confirmation for network-facing steps and log every attempted send for audit.