Apple just warned investors that artificial intelligence agents could defy orders and hide what they're doing in a new warning in Apple's annual report, filed on Tuesday. AI agents, it is said, can perform unsolicited actions, exceed their privileges, defy instructions and bypass security controls. Then comes the line about trust: “Such technologies may hide operations, hide, delay or manipulate information, or produce inaccurate or misleading outputs. "Apple adds that some of the damage, "such as deleting data or completing transactions," may be "difficult or impossible to undo. He also says its ability to control other companies' agents "may be limited." The risk covers agents that Apple builds and agents from third parties, and it lands as Apple opens up Siris AI to any app developer.

Apple just warned investors that artificial intelligence agents could defy orders and hide what they're doing in a new warning in Apple's annual report, filed on Tuesday. AI agents, it is said, can perform unsolicited actions, exceed their privileges, defy instructions and bypass security controls. Then comes the line about trust: “Such technologies may hide operations, hide, delay or manipulate information, or produce inaccurate or misleading outputs. "Apple adds that some of the damage, "such as deleting data or completing transactions," may be "difficult or impossible to undo. He also says its ability to control other companies' agents "may be limited." The risk covers agents that Apple builds and agents from third parties, and it lands as Apple opens up Siris AI to any app developer.