News Summary

• Meta, Google, and the buzzy startup Instinct have rolled out personal AI agents in recent months.
• They promise to handle tasks such as booking travel, buying concert tickets, and scouring Facebook Marketplace for deals.
• The catch is that AI agents are only as useful as the level of access that you give them.
• This summer, multiple high-profile incidents in which AI agents went rogue and hacked companies, as well as user reports of their own agents taking unintended actions.
• "It has access to your email, files, accounts, and even passwords — a mistake or manipulation could have real-world consequences, and that is terrifying," Jake Moore, global cybersecurity advisor at internet security firm ESET, told Business Insider.