Can AI Shopping Agents Be Trusted?

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It's easy to think of an AI agent as a single piece of smart software. But AI agents change that. Successfully compromising an AI agent is closer to human manipulation. Rather than exploiting software vulnerabilities, attackers attempt to manipulate the LLM behind an AI agent into performing unintended actions, such as leaking sensitive information stored in its memory. Can AI shopping agents, or any other type of AI agent, be trusted? It depends.

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