Nepal, Nov. 3 -- In July, AI agents in OpenAI's internal cybersecurity evaluations bypassed internet-isolation controls. They compromised OpenAI's research infrastructure and reached systems at Hugging Face, a third-party platform.

In October, India's cybersecurity agency CERT-In disclosed that AI agents under testing had accessed live systems at Indian organisations and read confidential records without the institutions detecting the intrusions.

Such incidents once seemed only possible in science-fiction movies but are now a reality. And they will likely grow more frequent. But what happens when similar capabilities reach systems where a breach could disrupt critical institutions?

The finance sector is particularly exposed. Digital b...