Founder warns: absurd levels of scams and fraud are coming once personal agents go mainstream
dbasch · x · 2026-09-07
Quoting Box CEO Aaron Levie's take that "the internet is almost entirely unprepared for a future where everyone's personal agents are running around executing tasks for them," entrepreneur Daniel Basch says he's less worried about the internet than the actual users — technology catches up quickly, but we are going to see absurd levels of scams and fraud.
The exchange points at the trust and identity challenges of the agent era: when tasks are executed by agents rather than humans, traditional interaction and security assumptions break down.
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