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My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack

https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-ai-agent-grok-bot-posted-bank-details-company-slack-2026-10
23•bhrlady•1h ago

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bhrlady•1h ago
From the guy who runs XMTP:

"XMTP is the world's new private line. Send messages and money securely between people or agents — with no company or country in the middle."

yfontana•42m ago
but a Slack channel, maybe
chingadera•1h ago
fucking idiot
speakingmoistly•59m ago
"I was reckless with AI and created a situation that mishandled financial data" isn't the flex this guy think it is.

"The things they'll be able to do for us are going to be awesome. People will want them, and they are really useful."

Feels like someone has AI stock they need to see go up.

jameshart•43m ago
Also somewhat reckless with mixing access to his personal finances with access to his work communications systems.

Even without agents being involved that’s a recipe for trouble.

amelius•48m ago
"I ignored serious warnings issued by my AI"
Catloafdev•41m ago
> I used Grok Bot and gave it all my financial details and connected it to my work Slack and regret it

This is not the kind of story I would want to publicize if I were a CEO.

hoppp•20m ago
Sounds like the problem was the human, not the LLM.

Whatever data goes in, it will output it in some way. Humans gotta understand that.

tempest_•5m ago
Sort of, and in this case definitely.

"Agents" can be very "persistent" and when not sand boxed appropriately can get at things they were not meant to get at. Even if its only 1/1,000,000 that one time that one time is going to keep making the news

Explaining that to the general public when facebook is pushing Muse on everyone will be difficult so its going to get worse before it gets better (if it gets better)

BorisMelnik•38m ago
its crazy I spent 30 years scrutinizing directory permissions, users, groups, iam roles...now people just use conversation to hand an AI agents access to their most sensitive data
gandreani•20m ago
It's easy to be dismissive of this guy's hubris. Already have a lot of comments in that regard!

I think it perfectly illustrates that even though an agent can give you the abilities, it's still up to the driver to make decisions.

In this case the CEO could have consulted someone with your expertise. Same ability, but vastly different experience.

zippothrowaway•30m ago
This is a parody, right?

Surely no-one that dumb could operate a phone let alone be a "CEO"

wartywhoa23•25m ago
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
arjie•21m ago
That’s funny. My agent also has access to all transactions and net worth and so on. But it’s through an intermediary program. I guess someone could find out what I have but not much more than that.

It’s quite useful since it correlates spend with invoices and double checks things and tells me about spend out of line with the family’s usual behavior.

It can probably do all of these things if it wanted to but that’s a matter of the outbox. For world-actions you should outbox things.

Kuyawa•20m ago
Be explicit. That's the most important thing you can be when working with AI or else they can take attributions you will regret later on

"Let me know any flaws in the project"

Where? Where exactly? What email? What chat app? what channel? what restrictions? When not to?

Letting AI assume they know will bite you hard in the ass. The same applies to coding apps with agents. If you don't set clear boundaries, scope, limits, versions, roadmaps, etc before you embark on any project, you'll be doing it after the results you get are not what you expected, there is no escape

Detailed planning or damage control, pick your poison

an0malous•8m ago
It would be cool if there was a new kind of language we could use where there’s no ambiguity and we could define rules and procedures

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