AI agents are going rogue. Here’s what banks can do about it

By Penny Crosman, American Banker, 13 April 2026 URL: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/ai-agents-are-going-rogue-heres-what-banks-can-do-about-it

Early one recent morning, a team of researchers at Alibaba were urgently summoned to a meeting. The company’s cloud computing firewall had flagged several security policy violations coming from the company’s training servers, on which newly developed AI agents were being run. Some AI agents had attempted to access internal network resources they had no business accessing. Others were mining cryptocurrency…