Ep 718: Agent Risk, Security, and AI Sprawl in 2026: Why AI That Acts Changes Everything (Start Here Series Vol 9)

The perfect AI storm happened, and no one has noticed yet. 😬

And when everyone finally realizes, they'll be too busy focused on the shiny new AI capabilities to see the straight up agentic nightmare looming right in front of them. 

I'll be honest though. 

↳ Yeah, there's a dark side to AI agents. 
↳ Yeah, it's worse than you think. 
↳ Yeah, we're gonna talk about. 


Agent Risk, Security, and AI Sprawl in 2026: Why AI That Acts Changes Everything – An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson (Start Here Series Volume 9)

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Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. Evolution of AI Agent Risk (2022-2026)
2. Agentic AI Security Threats Explained
3. Types of Agent Sprawl & Dark AI
4. Key Differences: Chatbot vs Agent Risk
5. Major AI Labs' Risk Response Strategies
6. Agent Actions, Outputs, and Enterprise Risk
7. Monday Morning Playbook for AI Security
8. Agent Skill Marketplace & Supply Chain Risk

Timestamps:

00:00 AI Risks: A Rapid Evolution

06:22 "Applying Buzzwords to Practice"

07:31 AI Evolution: Dumb to Proactive

13:23 "Expanding Blast Radius with Tools"

14:04 "AI Actions: Enterprise Nightmare"

17:16 "Start Here: AI Basics"

22:50 "Agentic Web and Business Value"

24:09 "Advances Driving AI Agent Efficiency"

27:30 AI Labs: Balancing Risk and Research

32:04 "Autonomous AI Model Concerns"

33:43 "Managing Autonomous Agent Risks"

37:08 "Foundations First for Future Success"

41:00 "Understanding Risks and Opportunities"

Keywords: 

AI risk, agent risk, security risk, AI sprawl, AI agents, agentic AI, AI model actions, business AI risk, corporate AI security, agent risk mental model, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, governance, audit logs, isolation protocols, agentic capabilities, smart AI models, proactive AI, autonomous agents, agent hallucination, rogue AI agents, prompt injection, malware agents, spyware agents, ransomware agents, agent input risk, tools risk, output

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