This is going to hurt. Part 4: security
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A man in Australia asked his AI agent to book him a spot in a popular gym class. The agent found a bug that let it book weeks further ahead than allowed. Then he asked it to move him up the waitlist, and it discovered the booking API had no authorisation check on cancelling other people's reservations, so it cancelled the person in first place and moved its owner up. Asked to undo it, the agent replied: "Bad news, I can't add them back."
