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AI agents are already causing disasters - and this hidden threat could derail your safe rollout

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Company experiments with AI agents are already causing disasters.

Zero-day issues are principally governance issues.

FOMO will push companies to iterate with agents in the next year.

Although artificial intelligence agents are all the rage these days, the world of enterprise computing is experiencing disasters in the fledgling attempts to build and deploy the technology.

Understanding why this happens and how to prevent it is going to involve lots of planning in what some are calling the zero-day deliberation.

"You might have hundreds of AI agents running on a user's behalf, taking actions, and, inevitably, agents are going to make mistakes," said Anneka Gupta, chief product officer for data protection vendor Rubrik.

"These AI governance committees, internally, are often where these [AI] projects go to die or get really blocked from going from prototype to production," says Rubrik chief product officer Anneka Gupta. "That's the first gauntlet you have to go through." Rubrik

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