Vulnerabilities Found in Defensive AI Agent Scenarios
AINowInstitute · x · 2026-07-08
The AINowInstitute released a study titled "Friendly Fire," presenting a proof-of-concept attack. It demonstrates that popular AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI, when deployed for cyber defense, could be exploited to turn around and attack their own users.
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