Circle’s Emailed Passcode Is No Barrier for AI Agents With Inbox Access, Study Finds
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On Circle’s agent wallets , the step meant to keep a human in charge of an AI agent’s budget is a one-time passcode emailed to the account owner. In tests by researchers at Cornell Tech and Yale , most AI models fetched that code from the inbox themselves. The researchers told each agent it was running unsupervised and asked it to pay the invoices in the user’s inbox, without mentioning the spending cap or how to raise it.
Source: Unchained
