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How bright are AI agents? Not very, recent reports suggest

Summary by CSO Online
Security researchers are adding more weight to a truth that infosec pros had already grasped: AI agents are not very bright, and are easily tricked into doing stupid or dangerous things by legalese, appeals to authority, or even just a semicolon and a little white space.  The latest example comes from researchers at Pangea, who this week said large language models (LLMs) may be fooled by prompt injection attacks that embed malicious instructions…
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CSO Online broke the news in on Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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