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Bank of America Invites AI Agents to Stay Away From the Password
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Bank of America is reminding customers not to share banking passwords with AI assistants. The bank says customers are responsible for activity resulting from their AI agents' access to accounts, TechCrunch reports. The warning arrives as software assistants are increasingly presented as helpers for everyday tasks. Delegating work can be convenient, but giving a system access to a financial account also raises questions about what it can do with that access. The bank's message places responsibility for resulting activity with the customer. That makes the division of labor less magical than an AI sales pitch might suggest. An assistant may offer to take care of tedious account-related work, but the person using it still needs to consider the access being granted. The bank, meanwhile, is drawing a line around who must answer for activity arising from that access. The scene is a particularly polite version of an old security conversation. The assistant says it would be delighted to help; the bank says the password should remain private; and the customer is left holding both the task and the consequences. Automation can make a chore feel as though it has been handed off. Responsibility, as the bank would like to remind everyone, is not necessarily included in the handoff.
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