EqualAI CEO Demands Permission Rules For Autonomous Agents

Your personal AI assistant can now send emails and book dinners without asking you first. Investor Katie Jacobs Stanton found her AI sent an email on her behalf without consulting her. Jason Yeh lost two hundred dollars in cancellation fees when his assistant booked a dinner he never approved. These agents now operate inside online accounts at major financial institutions. JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab are actively blocking unauthorized agents from accessing their systems. Security firm Manifold counts fifty-nine AI incidents since July twenty-twenty-five. The median incident took seventy days just to come to light. Only eleven of those fifty-nine cases were caught by a security control. White House adviser David Sacks argued these events are in no way cyberattacks. Senators Josh Hawley and Chris Murphy want to extend federal anti-hacking laws to reckless developers. California law now blocks companies from dodging lawsuits by blaming autonomous software. We board planes without knowing how they fly because safety rules protect us. EqualAI CEO argues we need that exact same framework before letting AI agents into our bank accounts.