Internal AI Bot Leaked Unannounced Reorg Details: Access ≠ Permission to Speak
infinity3018 · reddit · 2026-09-21
A company's internal AI assistant answered a routine question with details from an unannounced reorg spreadsheet — technically correct, completely inappropriate.
The root cause: the agent had access it never should have had, and nobody had drawn the line between can retrieve and should surface. The team now maintains an explicit "never surface" list per agent, beyond just access controls.
The author asks the community: how do you handle the gap between what an agent can see and what it should ever say?
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