Governing AI Agents: When Your Assistant Recommends a Phishing Email

Recently, while testing an early-access AI assistant that can take actions on a user's behalf, an employee at a cybersecurity company asked it to help review a suspicious email. The assistant recommended downloading the attachment.

The email turned out to be a KnowBe4 phishing simulation, and the attachment was a test payload, so the incident caused no harm. But the lesson is real: The AI did not know it was looking at a phishing email. It had no security context. It saw an email with an attachment and a user asking for help, and it responded helpfully.

That's the story. The bigger one is what it reveals about a category of tools moving into regulated organizations faster than most policies can keep up with.

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Governing AI Agents: When Your Assistant Recommends a Phishing Email

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