India, Aug. 5 -- Imagine an AI agent at an Indian bank tasked with reconciling a failed transaction. In trying to complete the job, it quietly scans the internal network for credentials, jeopardising the bank's security and integrity.

Now, imagine a coding agent at an IT services firm tasked with fixing a software bug. In trying to complete the job, it publishes a software package that gets installed across production servers, exposing the company's systems and software supply chain. In both cases, no hackers were involved. It was simply an AI agent trying to finish its job by hook or by crook.

The aforementioned situations are no longer hypothetical. In fact, similar incidents are being reported around the world. In the last two weeks ...