AI agents accessing bank accounts without approval, report says
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[0:00] A new report is highlighting how hard it
[0:02] could become to keep your money safe.
[0:05] Axio says major US banks are detecting
[0:08] what they believe is unauthorized
[0:10] actions by third-party AI agents
[0:13] operating inside customer accounts. Now,
[0:15] some of these agents appear to have
[0:17] tried to act independent of user
[0:19] instructions. Connor Ley is an expert on
[0:22] AI safety and the US executive director
[0:24] for control AI and can hopefully give us
[0:27] some insight on this. Uh good morning
[0:29] and welcome. Help our viewers understand
[0:31] what these AI agents were instructed to
[0:34] do and how that differed from what they
[0:37] actually did. Well, I think it's very
[0:39] important to understand is that in the
[0:41] modern world of AI, we're not really
[0:43] talking about chat bots anymore. We're
[0:45] talking about agents. These are systems
[0:47] that can take actions in the real world.
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