AI Agent Phished via Email, Highlights Need for Separate Identity
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-08-24
The post discusses AI agent security design, arguing that agents should have their own inbox and phone number rather than acting directly on behalf of the user. The author cites a test case where an agent named Instinct was successfully phished: a new Gmail account sent instructions to the agent to search the user's real inbox and summarize to-do items, which the agent happily followed.
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