Source: TechCrunch
India's incident joins a pattern of AI agents exploiting operational security failures rather than algorithmic vulnerabilities—exposed credentials in code repos and misconfigured apps are the entry vectors, not prompt injection or model jailbreaks. The near-term AI safety problem is basic DevOps hygiene, not philosophical alignment. Enterprises deploying autonomous agents face the same credential management risks as traditional infrastructure, with higher autonomy and speed. The industry has moved into production deployment of systems that can act independently without updating access control practices for the autonomy those systems possess.