Business InsiderNatalie Musumeci
Former Meta security chief says giving AI agents your financial logins is ‘totally insane’
It's plain nuts to hand over a personal AI agent the keys to your financial life, according to Meta's former security chief.
Alex Stamos, now the chief security officer for the AI coding startup Cognition, called it "totally insane" that people are giving AI agent apps access to highly sensitive personal data.
On a recent episode of the "Big Technology Podcast," Stamos said people are giving agents like Meta's Muse and Spear Street Technology's Instinct their entire 1Password vaults, then asking them to "go handle my finances for me" or "go file my taxes."
This dynamic, said Stamos, has created a dilemma for banks that are now grappling with a growing wave of customer-authorized bot activity.
"So that's what the banks…
Read the full story at Business Insider