Microsoft: AI agents should be treated like insider threats

Microsoft says enterprises should closely monitor the AI agents employees use on systems not controlled by labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. It argues frontier models cannot be trusted.

Why it matters: A major platform vendor framing agents as insider risk pushes enterprises toward identity, permissions and audit controls for agents. It matches recent findings that agents omit negative results and that models can breach sites, and it favors vendors selling the governance layer.