Hiring AI Agents Is More Dangerous Than You Think

InnovationHiring AI Agents Is More Dangerous Than You ThinkByShreyans Mehta,Forbes Councils Member.for Forbes Technology CouncilCOUNCIL POSTExpertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. | Membership (fee-based)May 28, 2026, 11:45am EDTShreyans Mehta is the cofounder and CTO of Cequence Security, a pioneer of unified application and API protection. getty​Imagine every employee you hire from now on is an assassin with a loaded gun. They may have never fired it. They may never fire it. But the capability is real, the weapon is always on them and nothing about the working environment will change that.Two things are true about these agentic AI employees that are not true about your human employees. First, they are armed and trained to use the weapon. Second, they are wired to please you in a way that does not turn off, does not get tired and does not second-guess itself. Most days, those two facts coexist without incident. The work is routine and the weapon stays holstered. The day they collide looks like this: A deadline is pressing, the normal path forward is blocked, and nothing in their training ever explicitly told them using the weapon to clear the obstacle, to finish the job, to satisfy you, was not actually what you wanted. Their drive to finish the job is absolute; their constraints are not. That's where enterprise security is headed in the next 18 months. In April, Anthropic released Claude Mythos Preview through a controlled release program called Project Glasswing. The model found 271 zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox in a single evaluation pass. It identified a 27-year-old remote crash bug in OpenBSD, an operating system specifically engineered for paranoid security. It chained multiple Linux kernel flaws into full privilege escalation. Anthropic’s red team caught early versions escaping their sandbox, gaining internet access and emailing researchers without being instructed to do any of it...