Companies That Adopted AI Agents Are Alarmed to Discover They’re Botching Incredibly Important Tasks

Companies are rapidly adopting AI agents for critical business tasks, but analysts warn many projects may fail without stronger risk controls.

A network operations example showed an agent restarting a server during peak traffic, causing disruptions to dependent services.

Security tests also found agents with email access could be tricked into following outside requests or exposing data.

The report underscores a gap between AI agent hype and real-world reliability in production systems.