{"id":208861,"date":"2026-05-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/artificial-intelligence-is-acting-like-an-employee-without-the-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:25:21","slug":"artificial-intelligence-is-acting-like-an-employee-without-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/artificial-intelligence-is-acting-like-an-employee-without-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence is acting like an employee, without the rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businessreport.co.za\/economy\/2026-05-05-artificial-intelligence-is-acting-like-an-employee-without-the-rules\/\">Artificial Intelligence is acting like an employee, without the rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businessreport.co.za\/economy\/2026-05-05-artificial-intelligence-is-acting-like-an-employee-without-the-rules\/\">https:\/\/businessreport.co.za\/economy\/2026-05-05-artificial-intelligence-is-acting-like-an-employee-without-the-rules\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"businessreport.co.za\">businessreport.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1979, an IBM training manual warned against letting computers make management decisions, yet today&#8217;s corporate reliance on AI-driven agents is increasingly ignoring this warning.<\/li>\n<li>The shift to agentic AI, where autonomous bots carry out complex tasks, has created an accountability gap, making organisations vulnerable to legal and financial repercussions when things go wrong.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;confused deputy&#8221; problem represents a heightened security threat, where AI agents\u2019 \u2018write\u2019 access to critical systems like CRM and treasuries can be exploited, escalating into severe attacks.<\/li>\n<li>Legal systems are still struggling to adapt to the complexities of holding AI agents accountable, with cases like Air Canada\u2019s bereavement fare incident highlighting ambiguities in accountability.<\/li>\n<li>Establishing &#8220;functional accountability&#8221; is crucial: AI agents should be supervised with human oversight, and their actions should be restricted by hard-coded limits to prevent high-stakes decisions without explicit human authorisation.<\/li>\n<li>Building a culture of scepticism towards AI agents is essential. It&#8217;s necessary to design systems where AI&#8217;s mistakes cannot lead to catastrophic management failures, adhering to the principle of Defence in Depth and leveraging a mix of people, processes, and technology for safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence is acting like an employee, without the rules https:\/\/businessreport.co.za\/economy\/2026-05-05-artificial-intelligence-is-acting-like-an-employee-without-the-rules\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-05 05:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/iol-prod.appspot.com\/image\/5232c8416ed0c73374c0b7351f364203eefd1884\/1000\/jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-208861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208863,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208861\/revisions\/208863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}