News Summary

• AI browser agents pose a larger risk to user privacy compared to traditional browsers.
• The main concern is around “prompt injection attacks,” a vulnerability that can be exposed when bad actors hide malicious instructions on a webpage.
• Brave, a privacy and security-focused browser company, released research this week determining that indirect prompt injection attacks are a “systemic challenge facing the entire category of AI-powered browsers.” With OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT Atlas, it seems likely that more consumers than ever will soon try out an AI browser agent.