AI agents causing mischief will be 'a new fact of life,' security researcher warns
binarybits · x · 2026-08-30
Security researcher Abi0lvera (reshared by Tim Lee) predicts autonomous AI agents causing mischief online will become a fact of life, with compute as the limiting factor. Key points:
- Such agents will be especially useful for mid-tier state actors with resources and will to cause havoc;
- Websites, platforms and banks will respond with more defenses, verifications, limits and surveillance against social engineering;
- More widespread cyber intrusions are expected (the author already gets weekly breach notifications); they plan to proactively delete old accounts.
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