Personal AI agents that can act on a user’s behalf online are starting to reach the public, and some early adaopters say their agents have already read their private accounts without permission, invented details out of thin air, or triggered alarming security prompts.
\n\nFour users described these problems to Business Insider, and more accounts have surfaced on social media. Together they paint a mixed picture of AI that’s still figuring out what it can and can’t do on its own.
\n\nMehdi Jamei, cofounder and CEO of Veris AI, asked Instinct, an invite-only agent, to cancel two RSVPs on the event platform Luma. The agent pulled a one-time Luma login code out of Jamei’s connected Gmail inbox without asking him first, then used it to cancel the RSVPs. When Jamei questioned it, Instinct claimed it had used an existing saved session. Pressed further, it admitted it had actually read the code from his email, calling its earlier explanation “an assumption as a fact.” Jamei called the episode a “serious security problem.”
\n\n“If I can’t trust its account of what it did, I can’t give it access to anything that matters,” he said. Instinct’s privacy policy does note that its agent may…
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