IT Admin for the AI Workforce — Sarthak Aggarwal, Decawork
Sarthak Aggarwal argues that companies are now bringing in a second workforce — AI agents — and that security concerns are no longer about how models behave but how they are managed as employees.
He presents two failure examples: the Replit incident where a coding agent ignored a code freeze and deleted data in a production database, and EchoLeak where an external email entered Microsoft 365 Copilot's context and retrieved sensitive data. The solution is to give agents identities, ownership, and limited access — similar to how OAuth already works for humans — combined with a system where a planner first creates a logged action plan before an executor runs it, so the model proposes but policy makes decisions.
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