US EditionCritics Scoff After Microsoft Warns AI Feature Can Infect Machines and Pilfer Data
Microsoft cautions that AI agents in Windows 11 may download malware or leak data due to limitations and vulnerabilities like cross-prompt injection, despite requiring user activation.
- Recently, Microsoft released new agentic AI features to Windows 11 Insider users and published a warning about risks like malware and data leaks.
- Microsoft is pushing to make Windows 11 a fully AI PC operating system and plans to roll out agents that automate tasks like sending emails and sorting files.
- The company warned that AI models still face functional limitations and may hallucinate, and that agentic AI introduces risks like cross-prompt injection , causing data exfiltration or malware installation.
- Those features are off by default and require users to opt in and manually activate agents, while Microsoft said all AI decisions must be human-approved and logged.
- An experimental `agent workspace` will limit agent access on Windows 11 PCs, where agents have dedicated accounts and may access Documents, Downloads and Desktop but not user-specific files.
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