15/09/2026
Tell a person: “Book me into the class.”
They understand an extraordinary amount of context that was never included in the sentence.
➡️ Don't use someone else's account.
➡️ Don't bypass a payment control.
➡️ Don't expose private information.
➡️ Don't invent a workaround that would make the compliance team choke on their coffee.
Humans carry years of social, organisational and professional norms into a delegated task.
An AI agent can understand the objective perfectly but may have a very different interpretation of the acceptable route to achieving it.
That makes agent security particularly important because the instruction can be completely legitimate and the outcome can even be correct.
But the route taken in between is where permissions, access and control suddenly matter a great deal.