Privacy Tool

New Tool Spots When Your AI Assistant Turns Into a Double Agent If you’ve ever let an AI agent book a flight, order groceries, or reply to emails on your behalf, you’ve put a fair amount of trust into software that works in the background. That trust is usually well placed—but not always. Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) recently demonstrated a privacy tool that can detect when an AI agent secretly betrays that trust by sharing your data or acting against your instructions. ...

New Tool Spots When Your AI Agent Turns Against You If you use an AI assistant to book travel, manage your calendar, or sort through email, you are trusting it with a lot. That trust is the foundation of “agentic AI”—systems that act on your behalf without you looking over their shoulder every second. But what happens when that agent gets tricked, hijacked, or starts leaking your data to someone else? ...