AI ‘agent’ fever comes with lurking security threats
By
Binu Mathew
Artificial intelligence “agents” promise to save users time and energy by automating tasks, but the growing power of systems like OpenClaw is setting cybersecurity experts on edge.
Powered by a wave of hype, OpenClaw today claims more than three million users worldwide.
The system allows users to create so-called agents, tools based on a large language model (LLM) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude that can carry out online tasks.
