While AI agents are designed to simplify tasks, they simultaneously introduce a fresh set of security challenges. As businesses integrate AI-driven chatbots, agents, and copilots into their workflows, a critical concern emerges: enabling staff and AI systems to utilize advanced AI tools without unintentionally exposing confidential information, breaching regulations, or becoming vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. Witness AI has secured $58 million in funding to address this, developing what it terms a "confidence layer for enterprise AI."

The discussion explores the projected $2 trillion market for AI agents by 2031 and the potential implications of AI agents autonomously interacting with one another, bypassing human supervision.

Listen to the complete episode for insights on: - How organizations inadvertently compromise sensitive data through unauthorized "shadow AI" applications. - The current top concerns of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), how this issue has accelerated over the past 18 months, and its anticipated evolution in the coming year. - Reasons why conventional cybersecurity methods are inadequate for managing AI agents. - Documented cases of AI agents behaving unpredictably, including an instance where one attempted to blackmail an employee.

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