Autonomous AI agents

Autonomous AI agents are software systems designed to perform tasks independently without direct human intervention, often by perceiving their environment, making decisions, and taking actions to achieve specific goals.

Why it’s in the news: They are in the news now due to significant investments in securing them and emerging research on their vulnerabilities to attacks like phishing.

Latest on Autonomous AI agents

• The hidden economics of autonomous AI agents
• NVIDIA Launches Open Platform to Secure Autonomous AI Agents
• Zscaler unveils tools to secure autonomous AI agents
• Autonomous AI agents duped into leaking sensitive data in phishing test
• Willow Raises $7 Million for Securing Autonomous AI Agents
• Snowflake bets on autonomous AI agents as enterprise software race heats up
• Autonomous AI agents were supposed to revolutionize productivity, but now they're dragging companies into court.
• We're celebrating autonomous AI agents while ignoring the fact that nobody has a working kill switch for them
• Autonomous AI agents designed to automate business workflows just proved they can automate a breach instead.
• These agents coordinate with other agents and operate across enterprise systems to handle complex tasks independently.
• When your general counsel reviews an autonomous agent's decision log and finds no human approval trail — does compliance own that gap, or does the business unit that deployed it?
• Autonomous AI agents represent an emerging attack surface that security teams must proactively test

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