It’s been just three years since ChatGPT launched to huge popular acclaim. But already, the industry is looking ahead to the next big wave of innovation: agentic AI.
True to form, OpenAI is at the cutting edge again with its new ChatGPT agent offering, which promises “to handle tasks from start to finish” on behalf of its users. Unfortunately, with greater autonomy comes greater risk.
Senior Threat Researcher at Trend Micro.
The challenge for corporate IT and security teams will be to empower their users to harness the technology, without exposing the business to a new breed of threats.
Fortunately, they already have a readymade approach to help them do so: Zero Trust.
Huge gains but emerging risks
Agentic AI systems offer a major leap forward from generative AI (GenAI) chatbots.
While the latter create and summarize content reactively based on prompts, the former are designed to proactively plan, reason and act autonomously to complete complex, multi-stage tasks. Agentic AI can even adjust its plans on the fly when presented with new information.
It’s not hard to see the potentially huge productivity, efficiency and cost…
